The Bob and Andrew Show: Electioneering 2008
This week on The Bob & Andrew Show, Bob and Andrew discuss the elections taking place on both sides of the 49th Parallel.
Sparked by Andrew’s theory on what it should take to be a lawyer, Bob and Andrew run the gauntlet of today’s politico landscape.
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Real Hard Language Time
Words are knowledge, and knowledge is power.
Not power in the sense of a rocket ship or steam engine or a chest-chop by professional wrestling legend Ric Flair, but power nonetheless. And to know language and how to circumvent it is crucial if you wish to communicate on Earth.
I’d like to offer up some helpful language tips, starting with the basics.
This is the American English alphabet.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
The letters A E I O U and sometimes Y are vowels. The remaining letters- B C D F G H J K L M N P Q R S T V W X Z- are called consonants. Together they form words. Milk. Phosphorus. Jigger. These are words.
Sentences are made up of words. That was a sentence. And this one. And this one, too.
Phrases are little nuggets of word-strings, like sentences, that relate to other things. Often called idioms, they are most always nonsense but have been embedded in the vernacular and are universally understood.
Tags: cash cow, figure of speech, George W. Bush, idioms, turn of phrase, words
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