Monday, December 5, 2011

Presidential Lingo

Some presidential lingo has varied over the years, but has vastly stayed the same. Ironic for an ever-changing country. Each and every president said "America," "Freedom," and "United States" far too often.

Obviously, the words "America" and "United States" directly relate to each president's speech. Assuming that he is, of course, speaking of or addressing the country. However, so many other words were over used in speeches, that I wonder why our nations leaders have such small vocabularies. It also makes me feel like their immense over-usage of many "cliche" words reflects poorly on the educational system as a whole.

Most, at least many, presidents have very powerful speaking abilities. They are able to bring audiences to their feet. That is how they get elected. They have knowledge of the human-mind and persuasion. I just don't feel like many of them are gifted in the ways of the thesaurus.

It would be one thing if these presidents all had unique, selective groups of words that they used in their speeches throughout each of their presidencies, but each president has the exact same GROUP of words.

 World-wide, many countries see the US as a stupid-country. Our president are the figure-head of our country, and if our president is seen as having a great stage presence, but very redundant content in his speeches, minimalistically his word-choice, I just don't see how that could be a positive thing.

Consistency is one thing, blatantly over-using certain phrases/words is another.

2 comments:

  1. I agree that many of the words used among presidents were the same. True, overusing words is different from consistency, but I can also see why America and United states were used so often.

    The content in your post was great, but I also thought I would mention your writing style. It's awesome! I could actually hear you saying this.

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  2. I totally agree with yahh!! Presidents seem to use the same words and vocabulary and after a while it is boring and they should change things up a bit. They do have great speeches and unique writing styles, but once and a while they could change somethings and really stand out!

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