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That's a lie and you know it. Let's pretend that speaking styles were reversed, i.e. Hillary/Obama sounded like Trump and Trump sounded like Hillary/Obama but their politics stayed the same, you know you wouldn't hate Hillary/Obama regardless of what they sound like.
No. I would not want them for office if they were incapable of giving dignified, intelligent speeches. And of not bullying people.
But, please keep in mind that I hold advanced degrees in English and Communication, so my bar is high.
If Trump's speeches were somewhat on the "simple" side, but he wasn't preaching fear and divisiveness, I might be able to give him a pass if I agreed with his politics.
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No. I would not want them for office if they were incapable of giving dignified, intelligent speeches. And of not bullying people.
But, please keep in mind that I hold advanced degrees in English and Communication, so my bar is high.
If Trump's speeches were somewhat on the "simple" side, but he wasn't preaching fear and divisiveness, I might be able to give him a pass if I agreed with his politics.
So then you are admitting you are against his politics, not his speaking ability.
So then you are admitting you are against his politics, not his speaking ability.
I dislike them both. Obviously, I could tolerate his rambling speeches if he wasn't doing stuff I found highly disagreeable, but I would not be on here touting his powers of oration, no.
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That's just your biased opinion because you don't like him politically. If he was a liberal, you wouldn't say he was an idiot. And don't say you would because you know you wouldn't.
Wrong for me. I'm a liberal, and I wouldn't want Bill Mather or Keith Olbermann as president.
President Trump uses one sentence paragraphs, words with at most two syllables, and tends to emphasis his points by repeating them, sometimes in the same breath. I'd say that it might be an indication that he has a limited grasp of the language, or that he simply doesn't have the intellectual capacity to speak in a more nuanced and detailed manner, but it might simply be the case that Donald Trump's speaks in a style that's most accessible to his base.
"Ernest Hemingway...has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check the dictionary to see if it is properly used." - William Faulkner, from a University of Mississippi lecture and Q&A in 1947, published in 1951.
"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" - Ernest Hemingway, from an interview in the early 1950's for Pappa Hemmingway: A Personal Memoir by AE Hotchner, 1966.
I suppose that if Donald Trump had authored any books or papers (no, his ghost-written best seller doesn't count), his manner of communication might be different from his speeches.
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