Diagramming Sarah Palin's sentences

[pokerfan]

Can Palin's sentences stand up to a grammarian?





http://www.slate.com/id/2201158

:rofl:

[Cerridwen]

1. I used to love diagramming sentences.

Oof! Yet more nerd admissions.

This is funny...and sad.

:D

[Blue_In_AK]

8. You're not alone.

I used to enjoy that, too.

[SoCalDem]

11. Me, three n/t

[DeepBlueC]

13. count me in

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

2. I call bull.

It's impossible to diagram her sentences on paper. You need more than two dimensions to do the job right.

[TheWraith]

3. I didn't know you could mathematically illustrate a clusterfuck. nt

[htuttle]

4. I just accidentally the whole sentence, is this bad?

[SharonRB]

6. Me also too.

[pokerfan]

7. In what respect, Charlie?

[geardaddy]

9. You mean "and also too, as well"? n/t

[SharonRB]

12. You betcha!

[Hekate]

15. That's our girl! Complete word-salad, dressed with utter drivel, also.

:banghead:

[Justpat]

5. No.

I've tried.

In catholic school we learned to diagram sentences in grade school.

It is impossible to diagram one of her sentences. She basically opens her mouth,
lets words run out of it unimpeded by any grasp of grammar, logic or sense.

[Wickerman]

10. problems with Executive Functioning

when you can't inhibit what comes out of yer yap.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Here's another new "actual quote" for you

that just appeared in today's Anchorage Daily News on the occasion of Sarah's trip to western Alaska with Franklin Graham and Jerry Prevo (our local megachurch Falwell clone):

Q: Is it possible for these communities that you’ll be visiting, the communities that we’ve been hearing about, to sustain their population that they have now 10 or 15 year from now?

PALIN: It is certainly a possibility.

Some of these areas … they may need to see some change in leadership within the community, also. For the leaders whom are looked to for guidance with the young people, that these leaders show them where opportunities are also. So they can, as I just mentioned, seize opportunities for jobs, at the same time being able to be such a strong part of their communities still. It is possible.




I dare you to read the whole piece here http://community.adn.com/adn/node/138240. As if Alaska's native peoples hadn't been harmed enough by missionaries -- now they get used as props for evangelical photo ops. :puke: