"A good orator is pointed and impassioned" – Cicero

Main menu:

Categories

September 2008
M T W T F S S
« Aug   Oct »
 1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

Archives

Tags

Blogroll

Site search

Off My Shelf

Archive for September 3rd, 2008

The remarkably unsophisticated language of Obama’s acceptance speech

Michael Long over at Ragan.com has a nice piece on the technical aspects of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech. He hits the nail on the head when he says:
the language and content overall were remarkably unsophisticated for such an auspicious evening. This was of a piece with a serious language problem.
And he had an example [...]