Linguist Says Trump's Speaking Skills Are Primitive Even By Standards Of Illiterate Indigenous Tribe

[Skidmore]

https://thetrumpimpeachment.com/Linguist-Says-Trump-39-s-Speaking/

If human communication was a symphony, Donald Trump would only be able to sputter a few tone deaf notes. A combination of self-assurance and utter ignorance is his main opus, with riffs of cocky vulgarity and casual cruelty interspersed as even George W. Bush noted the other day, although the formulation was not original to him. Trump’s inability to communicate as even a normal human being, let alone a head of state, was underscored this week with the condolence call debacle. Brian Williams interviewed linguistics professor John McWorter on the 11th Hour. McWhorter elaborated on Trump’s deficiency as a communicator.

Williams: “What is the linguistics definition of this president?”

McWhorter: “Donald Trump is unadorned. Linguistically, he is unadorned. This is the basics, this is what language was undoubtedly like when it first emerged among people who didn’t have writing and were first getting their verbal sea legs. This is where it started and so in that way as in so many others Donald Trump is an original.”

Williams: “That would mean that education and schooling has had no effect on his use of language. He’s quick to remind us that he went to the best schools.”

McWhorter: “And he learned nothing in them. He speaks like someone who has paid no attention to one of the goals of education, which is refine our natural, inborn proclivities of speech, which are great for casual circumstances, but he uses those same ways of speaking in what most of us used to consider formal and important circumstances.”... more

[pansypoo53219]

1. the stupids want somebody like them, not BETTER than them.

[cwydro]

2. Yup.

Spot on.

[Scarsdale]

4. Well, with Vlad's help

he found them. Much to the detriment of the rest of us.

[democratisphere]

3. How appropriate for our new third world nation status.

Soon our 50 states and possessions will be replaced with tribes.

[mdbl]

5. trump never made it past first grade in twitter class

It looks like that's where he got stuck. He was too busy cutting off girl's ponytails.

[Thor_MN]

6. Probably, that's why he likes stupid-ass twitter so much.

It's artificial, 140 character limit suits his limited linguistic abilities. Short words, fractured grammar, incomplete sentences - all are useful when trying to limit the number of characters used. Some think that the limit distills the content and makes it more artful, like a Haiku. I think that crap in small chunks is still crap - I don't want to step on a pile of rabbit turds as much as I don't want to step on a cow patty. Retweeting, or posting tweets on DU acts as a duplication system. Steaming piles of crap served up on everyone's lawns, like having a dog that can shit in every yard in one's neighborhood.

[HopeAgain]

7. He's a product of the devaluation of, and decline in, education

I call it the "Kardashian effect" where intelligence and intellect are no longer valued. Drama is valued over knowledge in modern America.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. +1

[MyOwnPeace]

11. Yes, and it's not new........

It's anti-elite and anti-education.

Look at how the Pugs and "the right" made fun of John Kerry because he spoke French.
Hell, Orange Cheat-o can't even speak English (per article - but we knew that)!

It's all a part of de-valuing education - hence DeVos as Secretary of Education!

[onecent]

8. OMG another good laugh for the day.

Dip shit.

[TheBlackAdder]

10. I wonder how many different people wrote Trump's college essays.

If there is a record of them, it is quite easy to not only tell there were different writers, but in some cases there are tools that can determine the identity of the real writer(s). I'm sure he paid someone to do his work for him.

[MyOwnPeace]

12. And after

he got his grade he probably didn't pay them anyhow!

[Jim Lane]

13. McWhorter and some posts in this thread are actually too KIND to Trump

McWhorter says that Trump learned nothing from his schools. I suspect that he did learn and that his discourse for most of his adult life was at a higher level, one that wouldn't be subject to McWhorter's criticisms. On this hypothesis, he doesn't have full-blown dementia, but with advancing age he's begun to experience a decline in his cognitive faculties.

The scary thing about this hypothesis is the possibility that Trump could get even worse over the next few years.

[lpbk2713]

14. Dumbya is a Rhodes Scholar by comparison.

It will take years for the US to get over this embarrassment.