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Post by drlj on Aug 26, 2011 22:16:38 GMT -5
Speaking in China about the importance of effective communication, Joe Biden had this to say. Liberal or conservative, you have to like this one.  “And so language, the ability not only to master the ability to put your ideas into words succinctly on a platform to communicate ideas to your own people, it is even more impressive when you have the capacity to do that and communicate your ideas, especially as future business and political and moral leaders of the world in the language of the people to whom you are speaking.” |
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Post by Fingerplucked on Aug 27, 2011 7:19:54 GMT -5
;D
It's not fair to do that to the Chinese. Unless they're really good with English, they're going to spend a while trying to figure out what he was trying to say.
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Post by millring on Aug 27, 2011 7:22:14 GMT -5
His speeching can be so inspirating.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Aug 27, 2011 7:33:30 GMT -5
The first time I read it I thought it was circumfulous, but then I realized that he was speaking phalaciously between the words.
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Post by Chesapeake on Aug 27, 2011 8:46:24 GMT -5
When Obama was just beginning to pick up steam as a candidate, Biden complimented him as being an articulate black man. It must be said that Biden himself is a credit to his own race.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Aug 27, 2011 9:40:53 GMT -5
When Obama was just beginning to pick up steam as a candidate, Biden complimented him as being an articulate black man. It must be said that Biden himself is a credit to his own race. Indeed. Up till now, the Mississpeakens haven't had a figure head to represent them. |
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Post by Supertramp78 on Aug 27, 2011 9:52:37 GMT -5
They are obviously cutting government waste by firing his speechwriters. Or should...
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Post by omaha on Aug 27, 2011 9:56:58 GMT -5
I heard he writes his own stuff.
Which is to say, I agree with you.
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Post by omaha on Aug 27, 2011 9:57:15 GMT -5
Heh.
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Post by Lonnie on Aug 27, 2011 10:26:54 GMT -5
;D It's not fair to do that to the Chinese. Unless they're really good with English, they're going to spend a while trying to figure out what he was trying to say. ...to the Chinese? It's not fair to do that to anybody... Ya know, eschew obfuscation and all that. |
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Post by Fingerplucked on Aug 27, 2011 10:31:56 GMT -5
Ya know, eschew obfuscation and all that. Tell me about it. I like it when somebody else eats all the Brazilian & macadamia nuts first, leaving me just the eschews. |
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Post by Lonnie on Aug 27, 2011 10:34:23 GMT -5
Yeah, but in the cheap mixed nut cans the eschews are always obfuscated by the peanuts.
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Post by TKennedy on Aug 27, 2011 10:39:43 GMT -5
Biden actually spoke in Mandarin dialect and what was posted was an English translation by a Chinese technical manual writer.
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Post by millring on Aug 27, 2011 10:51:53 GMT -5
Biden actually spoke in Mandarin dialect Which goes a long way toward explaining why he so soon felt the need to repeat himself. |
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Post by Chesapeake on Aug 27, 2011 11:11:14 GMT -5
Biden actually spoke in Mandarin dialect and what was posted was an English translation by a Chinese technical manual writer. You beat me to it. |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Aug 27, 2011 11:28:54 GMT -5
You guys don't give Joe enough credit. This is obviously a subtle counter attack on the Chinese. They hack our computers, we send them Joe.
Mike
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Post by Marshall on Aug 27, 2011 11:57:34 GMT -5
Biden actually spoke in Mandarin dialect and what was posted was an English translation by a Chinese technical manual writer. + + + + + + |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2011 12:46:17 GMT -5
A little less than succinct maybe, but with a bit more punctuation and a pause or two, this could sound fine. I always thought that about the "known unknowns" quote too btw.
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Post by Jawbone on Aug 27, 2011 15:57:27 GMT -5
Obama's fault.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Aug 27, 2011 16:09:38 GMT -5
A little less than succinct maybe, but with a bit more punctuation and a pause or two, this could sound fine. I always thought that about the "known unknowns" quote too btw. “And so, language! The ability not only to master the ability to put your ideas into words succinctly on a platform, to communicate ideas to your own people, it is even more impressive when you have the capacity to do that! And communicate!! Your ideas, especially as future business and political and moral leaders of the world, in the language, of the PEOPLE to whom you are speaking?” |
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