No Agreement Reached
The President recently spoke to a conference of the nation’s mayors. During his talk, Mr. Bush again weighed in on the long running dispute between subjects and verbs. At one point he noted:
If you want to be blunt about what has taken place, sometimes when you don't measure, you just shuffle kids through. Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling.
As you can see, no agreement was reached. Via Trish Wilson.
Comments
Well children does usually mean more than one; in George's mind, plural.
Posted by: Kitt | February 1, 2004 02:42 PM
I've seen the quote, but that's a perfect parsing, thanks Dwight! The kind of stuff Firesign used to make fun of... "Who Am Us, Anyway?" and all that...
Posted by: Elayne Riggs | February 1, 2004 03:23 PM
We am amused.
Posted by: julia | February 1, 2004 04:01 PM
The guy is a genius!!!! Who could figure a guy that dumb would be up to anything????
Rose
a "ticked" POA
Posted by: Rose | February 1, 2004 05:54 PM
It's normally a low blow to pick on someone's grammar and spelling, but Bush is setting himself up as the "education president." He bragged in that speech that he barely made it out of school, and the mayors cheered.
The whole speech twisted my optic cords into a Gordian knot. At first I thought it was a hoax, but it's on the White House web site. What is the "soft bigotry of low expectations?" Anything like "fuzzy math," "evil biology," and "evil chemistry?"
"[T]he people of Afghanistan are free"? (!!!!)
I haven't had enough coffee this morning to think more about it without my brain hurting.
Posted by: Trish Wilson | February 2, 2004 06:54 AM