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01/12/19 at 20:48:54
 
Is explained superbly here by Prof John McWhorter and makes a strong case  as to how it is yet another indicator of his inherent unfitness to govern.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/what-trumps-typos-reveal/57...

One could call this critique a mere matter of formalism. However, Trump-talk is more than typos. In his actual speech, Trump presents an oddly abbreviated rendition of English, reminiscent of languages when they are dying out or compromised in some way.

For example, Trump is given to talking about “doing” things when most would choose a more specific verb. Last summer, Trump bragged of having told Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May “how to do Brexit.” “Do” it? Like “doing” Cats, or shots? Mere do does rather gracelessly drag the statement down to the cold, hard pavement. Trump also hopes he can “do” a wall in Mexico: “That’s 13,000 miles,” he said. “Here, we actually need 1,000 because we have natural barriers. So we need 1,000. We can do a wall. We’re going to have a big, fat, beautiful door right in the middle of the wall.”
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Re: Trump's use of language
Reply #1 - 01/12/19 at 22:42:37
 
reinforces his popularity with the inane
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Reply #2 - 01/14/19 at 06:14:19
 
You guys don't "get it".
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Reply #3 - 01/14/19 at 06:26:25
 
WebsterMark wrote on 01/14/19 at 06:14:19:
You guys don't "get it".



What's to "get" mark?

The president speaks like a buffoon.  Did you see his address to the nation on the border wall?  It was laughable.

The man is 72 years old and he read from the prompter like a 12 year old.

His use of language shows his low IQ.

If you think he "speaks like me", well then, consider yourself in a lower IQ bracket.

And further, let's not forget - this man is president of the most powerful nation on Earth.  Yet there he is on Twitter, name calling and responding to every single critic thanks to his ultra thin skin.

Pathetic.
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Reply #4 - 01/15/19 at 13:30:26
 
I've always looked upon the ability of a person to properly use the English language as an indication of intelligence. After all the spoken or written word is the only insight into how their though processes work. When you have someone who can only speak at a grade school level in broken sentences full of ambiguities and continued wrong information their intelligence must be questioned.  

www.quora.com/Why-is-someones-vocabulary-a-signal-of-their-intelligence
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Reply #5 - 01/15/19 at 17:02:15
 
Ed L. wrote on 01/15/19 at 13:30:26:
I've always looked upon the ability of a person to properly use the English language as an indication of intelligence. After all the spoken or written word is the only insight into how their though processes work. When you have someone who can only speak at a grade school level in broken sentences full of ambiguities and continued wrong information their intelligence must be questioned.  



I'm amazed at how someone with the intellectual capabilities of the average 12 year old has become President of America. It's clear to me that Trump is the disaster that had to happen and that Trump will be glad to be deceased when history is written because it will not end well.

John McWhorter has some excellent series of lectures on language at TGC.
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