<<Bush had planned to say 'I am honoured to shake this man's brave remaining hand - I've shaken a lot of brave hands, folks, and sometimes you don't even have sureness as to what hand to shake. But today that wasn't a problem'.>> Yikes. All they had to do was cut out the pseudo-comedic-folksy part of "having sureness" and it's not being a problem. Who ARE his speech writers, anyone? Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj:[lit-ideas] Re: The Other Hand Date:6/28/2004 7:50:05 AM Central Daylight Time From:donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx To:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent on: --- Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote: > > We are considering anaphora in discourse: > > (1) I'm honored to shake > the hand > of a brave Iraqi citizen who had > his hand > cut off by Saddam Hussein. > > McEvoy applies Gricean considerations on politeness and writes: Since my earlier posting I have done some research and found that this quotation, though the words were spoken by Bush, was in fact minted by his speech-writers. Bush had planned to say 'I am honoured to shake this man's brave remaining hand - I've shaken a lot of brave hands, folks, and sometimes you don't even have sureness as to what hand to shake. But today that wasn't a problem'. So don't blame Bush. ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html