What Palinspeak is and why it matters
by Luimbe • April 6, 2010 • politics & money
John McWhorter explains Palinspeak is and why it isn’t a disqualifying trait to Palin’s loyal supporters. Yet Palinspeak still differs from statements like Brownback’s in degree. It’s a rather extreme case — an almost instructive distillation of the difference in public conceptions of language in Charles Eaton and Robert Byrd’s time versus our own. “Folksy” [...]