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TNNurse

(6,924 posts) Sat Dec 17, 2016, 09:49 AM Dec 2016

Anyone collecting examples of Trump's literacy errors

or lack of literacy??? The capture of our underwater drone was "unpresidented", that ain't a typo.....that is just pure ignorance. I think he needs to take a basic English test and be graded on spelling, grammar and perhaps one of those grammar school vocabulary tests.

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Anyone collecting examples of Trump's literacy errors (Original Post) TNNurse Dec 2016 OP

What are you trying to say? trump is illiterate? mountain grammy Dec 2016 #1

semi-literate TNNurse Dec 2016 #3

I wouldn't even go that far. mountain grammy Dec 2016 #5

Quasi-literate.... Wounded Bear Dec 2016 #24

Least of our worries LynnTTT Dec 2016 #2

I realize there are bigger issues TNNurse Dec 2016 #4

Just you 'waite' malaise Dec 2016 #6

Dr. Bronner's evil brother! Pathetic! Sad! Dilute! Dilute! OK! Buns_of_Fire Dec 2016 #7

Maybe he just does it pintobean Dec 2016 #8

Are you saying that people who think TNNurse Dec 2016 #10

He's not illiterate pintobean Dec 2016 #11

Sorry but education is pretty damn important. TNNurse Dec 2016 #13

I am in total agreement. His poor command of the English language is, IMO, indicative cornball 24 Dec 2016 #14

Exactly... easy way to rile up the *elitist librul weenies*. SMC22307 Dec 2016 #23

ACTUALLY madokie Dec 2016 #9

Yeah . . . bigly. Vinca Dec 2016 #12

He's making Dubya look like a genius. smirkymonkey Dec 2016 #19

I think this is why he insists on having his kids around him. QED Dec 2016 #15

I would love to know the last book he read TNNurse Dec 2016 #16

If anyone asked, it would be a Palinesque response. QED Dec 2016 #17

Thanks, it takes a lot to make me smile these days, but this did. TNNurse Dec 2016 #18

I think it was "The Art of Coloring Inside the Lines" 66 dmhlt Dec 2016 #21

Well, he does have a way with words: 66 dmhlt Dec 2016 #20

do you think he is typing or dictating? treestar Dec 2016 #22

mountain grammy

(26,598 posts)

1. What are you trying to say? trump is illiterate?

Reply to TNNurse (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 09:54 AM

Dec 2016

make America illiterate again.

TNNurse

(6,924 posts)

3. semi-literate

Reply to mountain grammy (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:11 AM

Dec 2016

is I believe the correct term.

mountain grammy

(26,598 posts)

5. I wouldn't even go that far.

Reply to TNNurse (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:13 AM

Dec 2016

semi-semi-literate, maybe.

Wounded Bear

(58,596 posts)

24. Quasi-literate....

Reply to mountain grammy (Reply #5)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:45 PM

Dec 2016

LynnTTT

(362 posts)

2. Least of our worries

Reply to TNNurse (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 09:56 AM

Dec 2016

TNNurse

(6,924 posts)

4. I realize there are bigger issues

Reply to LynnTTT (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:13 AM

Dec 2016

but tweeting the wrong word could have disastrous results. He is going to piss off the wrong people and we will all suffer.

malaise

(268,678 posts)

6. Just you 'waite'

Reply to TNNurse (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:15 AM

Dec 2016

Buns_of_Fire

(17,149 posts)

7. Dr. Bronner's evil brother! Pathetic! Sad! Dilute! Dilute! OK!

Reply to TNNurse (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:32 AM

Dec 2016

(I mean no disrespect here to the real Dr. Bronner, who was a genuinely good person.)

pintobean

(18,101 posts)

8. Maybe he just does it

Reply to TNNurse (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:34 AM

Dec 2016

to tweak snobs.

TNNurse

(6,924 posts)

10. Are you saying that people who think

Reply to pintobean (Reply #8)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:36 AM

Dec 2016

literacy is important are snobs??

pintobean

(18,101 posts)

11. He's not illiterate

Reply to TNNurse (Reply #10)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:45 AM

Dec 2016

Like most people, he makes spelling errors. The man has a shit ton of faults that we can deal with. Ridiculing spelling errors is petty and counterproductive.

TNNurse

(6,924 posts)

13. Sorry but education is pretty damn important.

Reply to pintobean (Reply #11)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 11:00 AM

Dec 2016

He makes more errors than spelling. Using the wrong word can have disastrous effects.

He is ignorant of many important facts and how government works. His cabinet indicates that their only priority is making money. I think knowledge, ethics and humanity are critical to our survival.

cornball 24

(1,474 posts)

14. I am in total agreement. His poor command of the English language is, IMO, indicative

Reply to TNNurse (Reply #13)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 11:32 AM

Dec 2016

of his disregard for detail. For obvious reasons, this is not a shortcoming we want in our President.

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)

23. Exactly... easy way to rile up the *elitist librul weenies*.

Reply to pintobean (Reply #8)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:44 PM

Dec 2016

It's kind of depressing that after all these years, er, decades of Republican attacks on the left, folks still don't get it.

madokie

(51,076 posts)

9. ACTUALLY

Reply to TNNurse (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:35 AM

Dec 2016

someone needs to kick his ass up between his shoulders to where he has to take his shirt off to shit. ACTUALLY

a pissant of a man is what tRump is
my apologies to pissants

Vinca

(50,236 posts)

12. Yeah . . . bigly.

Reply to TNNurse (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 10:53 AM

Dec 2016

Did you ever imagine someone would come along and make Dubya look smart??

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

19. He's making Dubya look like a genius.

Reply to Vinca (Reply #12)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 11:52 AM

Dec 2016

I am sure that W is pretty happy that Trump has pretty much eclipsed the worst of his administration already.

QED

(2,747 posts)

15. I think this is why he insists on having his kids around him.

Reply to TNNurse (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 11:38 AM

Dec 2016

They know his linguistic limitations and have helped him hide them so far. It's been said that he doesn't read - my guess is that one of the kids summarize for him.

TNNurse

(6,924 posts)

16. I would love to know the last book he read

Reply to QED (Reply #15)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 11:42 AM

Dec 2016

and it does not count that it is one he supposedly "wrote".

QED

(2,747 posts)

17. If anyone asked, it would be a Palinesque response.

Reply to TNNurse (Reply #16)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 11:44 AM

Dec 2016

Which sources do you read? All of them. Which ones? All of them. Can you name one? The media is corrupt! It's the crooked, no talent NY Times....

Blah blah blah

TNNurse

(6,924 posts)

18. Thanks, it takes a lot to make me smile these days, but this did.

Reply to QED (Reply #17)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 11:48 AM

Dec 2016

66 dmhlt

(1,941 posts)

21. I think it was "The Art of Coloring Inside the Lines"

Reply to TNNurse (Reply #16)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:39 PM

Dec 2016

66 dmhlt

(1,941 posts)

20. Well, he does have a way with words:

Reply to TNNurse (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:38 PM

Dec 2016

TRUMP:

“People don’t know how great you are. People don’t know how smart you are. These are smart people. These are smart people. These are really the smart people. And they never like to say it. But I say it. And I’m a smart person. These are the smart. We have the smartest people. We have the smartest people. And they know it. And some say it. But they hate to say it. But we have the smartest people.”

https://www.c-span.org/video/?415991-1/donald-trump-campaigns-ottumwa-iowa
https://twitter.com/hashtag/unpresidented?src=hash

NOTE: I didn't say it was a GOOD way words - but he does have a way ...

treestar

(82,383 posts)

22. do you think he is typing or dictating?

Reply to TNNurse (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 12:40 PM

Dec 2016

I see a lot of errors like that which could be due to speaking the text to the device. Like "taking for granite."

OTOH, Orange Hitler probably can't spell well, it is said he does not read, and that's why people make those errors. People who read see the words in print enough to learn the spellings.

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