The Mind Lounge

This is the leader of the world ?

Something funny caught my attention while I was reading the papers today . President Bush needs to work on his vocabs man hehe .

1) (of astronauts) "... the wonderful entrepeneurs of space ... "

Correction : The president surely meant explorers , not entrepeneurs . There are not many deals to be done in space .

2) " We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile "

Correction : WTF ? For hostile , read hostage . The two words start the same way - and then part company .

3) " I don't have to accept their tenants . I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants "

Correction : I don't think the President's a landlord . Sure he rules America but he must've meant tenets ( as in principles , a doctrine held firmly ) , not tenants .

4) " A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness "

Correction : For anecdote , read antidote .

5) " They said , 'you know this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people "

Correction : Resignate ? No such word . He must meant resonate , to create sympathetic emotional responses to a situation . Politicians will always hope that what they say will resonate with the public .

6) "Arbolist ... Look up the word . I don't know , maybe I made it up . Anyway , it's an arbo-tree-ist , somebody who knows bout trees .

Correction : He made it up alright . And since the Latin word for 'tree' is arbor , the nearest shot at a new word would be arborist (cultivator of trees) . I wish the President would confine himself to mastering the words already in the books , rather than creating new ones .

7) " See , without the tax relief package , there wouldn't have been the commiserate - not 'commiserate' - the kick to the economy that occurs as a result of the tax relief "

Correction : Commiserate is a real test . He can't mean , " to express pity or sympathy with others " . My guess is that he is searching for commensurate , "proportionate to " . eg. The stimulus to the economy would be to commensurate with the tax cuts .

8) " The federal government and the state government ... must welcome those faith-based programmes for the embetterment of mankind "

Correction : 'faith-based' ? religious seems more appropriate . And its betterment, not embetterment , which does not exist . Was he confused with embitter ?

9) " Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure .."

Correction : Subsidation again , does not exist . It shouldv'e been "He will not stand for subsidizing failure " .

10 ) " Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace "

Correction : You can't achieve road maps through roadblocks . I dunno where he's going with this . He shouldv'e just kept it simple and said " Security is the essential roadmap to peace "