{"id":46380,"date":"2012-09-10T19:31:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T03:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46380"},"modified":"2012-09-10T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T03:38:24","slug":"obamas-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46380","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s English"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the New York Times<\/a>: “But while racial and ethnic minorities (and working-class whites) must continue to learn \u201cstandard\u201d American English \u2014 the country\u2019s dominant language \u2014 all children surely need to learn to understand and appreciate the nuances of America\u2019s diverse ways of speaking.”<\/p>\n

Dennis Prager on his radio show today: “I have no idea what that means. Here’s how blacks diversely speak? How latinos diversely speak?”<\/p>\n

NYT: “In a multiethnic, multicultural America where Hispanics are the largest ethnic minority and Asians are the fastest-growing minority, national politicians also will have to be fluent in multiple ways of speaking.”<\/p>\n

Dennis: “Makes me throw up. I don’t want them to be fluent in multiple ways of speaking. When I hear politicians sound different before different audiences, it makes me sick. I’ve spoken to every ethnic group in America and I’ve spoke exactly the same. It is a matter of pride to me to not condescend to my audience.”<\/p>\n

NYT:”For too long, sounding presidential meant sounding like a white, middle- or upper-class straight man (with modest leeway for regional accents). In 2012 and beyond, it\u2019s going to take a lot more than that to win over the hearts and minds \u2014 and ears \u2014 of the American people.”<\/p>\n

Dennis: “I’m also supposed to sound gay? The vast majority of gays sound like straights. All lesbians do and most gay men. This is the crap at Stanford.”<\/p>\n

NYT: “H. Samy Alim, the director of the Center for Race, Ethnicity and Language at Stanford University, and Geneva Smitherman, a professor of English at Michigan State University, are the authors of \u201cArticulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.\u201d”<\/p>\n

Dennis says he’s working on his autobiography and it is tentatively titled, “A Man, A Jew And An American.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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