BFnD
I still call a refrigerator an ‘ice box’
I still ‘tape’ TV shows
To think PDJT was vilified and scorned for referring to wire taps, spying etc etc etc
Remember way back when JMcCain stumbled in a campaign speech and they said his slurred words and misstates were the result of his advanced age and just being OLD?
2 days later when BO did the ‘same’ thing it was attributed to him working 24/7 and his ‘mistakes’ were just slip ups because he was so intelligent he was thinking way ahead of himself...
I remember
57 states
‘my’ Muslim faith when the announcer corrected him
Corpseman
just to name a few of many but the LIBs catch a break while the Rs get ‘humiliated’.
I had heard once that a ‘bad’ public speaker will sound out his A’s instead of using the more ‘natural’ a and one can tell if he is reading or going from memory.
Of course they want ‘them’ to stick to the script as liable to not get in ‘trouble’ that way.
I have noticed Juan Soto from the Nationals speaks (almost) flawless English for a 19-20-year-old from The Dominican, BUT he still has an interpreter standing by during his ‘press conferences’....guess management afraid the evil press will try to trip him up and say something embarrassing- which actually isn’t a bad idea since the reporters are wont to ask such idiotic questions as
‘After the other team hit the 6 straight home runs, did you feel a let down’
‘You just hit a batter in the face and broke his nose/eye socket - how did that make you feel with him lying there’?
I realize the questions asked are for the ‘novices’ but I find I can not watch most any ‘sports interview’ because of the mundane questions being asked by ‘clever(??)’ reporters
The one I still think about and ponder is. “Dial the phone.”
I lost my last one about 20 years ago and the land line with the push button models about 2 years ago when the local phone company finally un-bundled it so cable and internet were no longer cheaper if you also took their phone.