[lbo-talk] Libya from above

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 12:46:51 PDT 2011


On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
> Yes, it's unfortunate that Neil Armstrong communicated using complete
> sentences.

Your comment reminded me of "My fellow americans, let´s roll" http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,183747,00.html

....or in the words of lingust John McWhorter http://ho.io/px6v

--- "There was a time in America when presidents such as Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Kennedy exhorted our country to greatness with orations replete with elevated diction and measured rhetorical technique. But today the hearts and minds of our weary nation are implored by a president whose idea of eloquent phrasing is Let’s roll.” ---

FC



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