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Old 07-08-2003, 07:18 PM   #1
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Is it just me who's noticed or is there a habit in the US of embelishing words?.
I've noticed this a lot in US government speeches.

Take a word like arrest. I arrest, he arrests, you have been arrested etc.
In Bush speak this would become "we will arrestify Saddam" or "he has been arrestificated".

I noticed this with "anaesthetist", it becomes "anaesthetologist" somehow in the US.
Anyone else notice others?
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Old 07-08-2003, 11:31 PM   #2
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Sports commentators have been doing this for years. It just strikes me as a poor command of the language. I really wish that the White House would have better grammar. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

So spoken like the daughter of an editor.
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