[lit-ideas] Re: The Other Hand

<<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
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--- 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.






    
    
        
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