Ben Zimmer Quotes

• Cuando de la boca de un político salen palabras lingüísticamente incorrectas, la gente ve en ello un reflejo de su inteligencia. A Sarah Palin se le llamó la atención por "refutar", que parecía combinar refutar y repudiar. Uno de los bushismos favoritos fue "subestimar".

  Ben Zimmer

  People, Mouths, Politician

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as robotic, someone who is trying to approximate real human emotion.

  Ben Zimmer

  Real, Trying, Emotion

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• Even if you close your eyes, you'll still hear Donald Trump sniffing. Linguists might call [these visuals] paralinguistics, every form of information including facial gestures and facial features. Obviously these things get scrutinized in tremendous detail, so that a cough can be of outsized importance. [But] that's all part of the package.

  Ben Zimmer

  Eye, Details, Gestures

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Donald Trump himself has an idiosyncratic speaking style that relies on simple words and phrases, which worked for him in the primaries but may be coming up short for him now.

  Ben Zimmer

  Simple, Style, Phrases

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• Even though a definite article is supposed to bring something into focus, Donald Trump uses it in a very general way. It's seen by many observers as a kind of racial distancing. Often using that article seems unnecessary. [But] it is serving some function, which is to represent a group collectively rather than as individuals.

  Ben Zimmer

  Focus, Groups, Use

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Sometimes people are primed to hear in a certain way. When a word like braggadocious suddenly appears, it's like, 'What, is he just making that up?'

  Ben Zimmer

  Gente, Manera, A Veces

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Donald Trump habla extemporáneamente, a menudo a través del flujo de conciencia, donde no parece seguir una trayectoria.

  Ben Zimmer

  Consciousness, Speak, Trump

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• Weaponization of a candidate's words against him or her is something we're seeing a lot. The term Obamacare was used against Obama in a pejorative way, but Obama again reclaimed it.

  Ben Zimmer

  Obamacare, Way, Used

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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