<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Is Palin running for anything at the moment? Is she running against Sotomayor? I'm not really sure why we're comparing them.</div><div><br></div><div>For the record, the reason I didn't vote for her had to do with her lack of experience not her misuse of language. But it's pretty much a done deal since she can't even stand the heat of being Governor of Alaska, so she is not a serious candidate for President of the US. But keep thinking she is!</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, what conclusion should we draw from this little exercise? Are malapropisms relevant or not? I think not which means this post of yours is just as bad as the one you criticized (which by the way was followed by a retraction AND an apology). On the other hand, if this kind of crap is relevant, then you have no complaint.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jul 17, 2009, at 6:06 AM, "g. crabtree" <<a href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com">jampot@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">For those on the list who found Governor
Palin to be a less than stellar intellect because of a totally unsubstantiated
assertion that she once confused succeed with secede, and that wise latina Sonia
Sotomeyor the paragon of the well educated women...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">From the Weekly Standard, 20 July
edition:</font></div>
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<h3 class="TWSblog-entry-header">If Sarah Palin Had Said It . . . (Update)</h3>
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<p>Ed Whelan <a href="http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/?q=N2JiMWI3NDJlMDEwZTA0NDI1M2NmYmQxN2NhMmVlMjI=" target="_blank"><font color="#566ba0">writes</font></a>:
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<p>Judge Sotomayor says “eminent” when she means “imminent,” “providence”
instead of “province,” “story of knowledge” instead of “store of knowledge,”
and so on. Does the fact that she is a Latina immunize her from attention to
that sort of (admittedly not uncommon) foible?</p></blockquote>
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<p>To answer Whelan's question: These malapropisms would only be noteworthy and
revealing if they were spoken by a certain country bumpkin Republican governor
of Alaska. When a wise Latina accidentally <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/audio_of_sotomayor_at_ricci_he.asp" target="_blank"><font color="#566ba0">says</font></a> "vagrancies of ... the moment"
instead of "vagaries of ... the moment" during the oral argument of the
<em>Ricci</em> case, we're supposedi to ignore the slip-up, as the <em>Wall
Street Journal</em> did, but <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/05/29/sotomayor-tape-reveals-views-on-ricci-v-destefano-discrimination-case/" target="_blank"><font color="#566ba0">make sure to inform readers</font></a> that
they should be impressed by the fact that "The Catholic-school-educated judge
clearly knew the Latin plural of 'forum.'"</p>
<p>But enough about her errors of diction. I wouldn't want to get <a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45d56e6f-f497-4b19-9c63-04e10199a085" target="_blank"><font color="#566ba0">Sotomayor's reputation</font></a> for writing
pieces "that didn't distinguish between substantive and trivial points, with
petty editing suggestions--fixing typos and the like--rather than focusing on
the core analytical issues."</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>: <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/15/good-news-sotomayor-confuses-eminent-with-imminent-twice/" target="_blank"><font color="#566ba0">Allahpundit has the video</font></a> and a
choice Sotomayor quote: "each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent
tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I
blister."</p></div>
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