What a Phonry
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she sees her sometimes Southern accent as a virtue.
"I think America is ready for a multilingual president," Clinton said during a campaign stop at a charter school in Greenville, S.C.
The New York senator-who said she's been thinking about critics who've suggested that she tried to put on a fake Southern accent in Selma, Ala.-noted that she's split her life between Arkansas, Illinois and the East Coast.
Clinton added a Southern lilt to her voice last week when addressing a civil rights group in New York City headed by the Rev. Al Sharpton. On Monday, dealing with a microphone glitch at a fundraiser for young donors, she quoted former slave and underground railroad leader Harriet Tubman.
The two episodes prompted some ribbing in the media and hatched more than a few humorous YouTube video clips.
Clinton is a linguistic polyglot-a Chicago native turned New York resident who works in Washington and spent two decades living in Arkansas when her husband, Bill Clinton, was governor.
But observers have long noted her tendency to speak Southern primarily in front of black audiences, as she did with Sharpton last week and at a civil rights commemoration in Selma in March.
All the Democrats are vying for the support of black voters-a crucial constituency especially in the early voting state of South Carolina. In 2004, black voters comprised nearly 50 percent of the state's Democratic primary turnout.
Polyglot has several meanings:Look up Polyglot in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.The property of speaking multiple languages
A polyglot is a person who can speak many languages, opposite of Monoglot
A polyglot is a book that contains the same text in more than one language, usually a Bible such as the Complutensian Polyglot Bible
A polyglot is a language that is a combination of other languages
A polyglot is a computer program that is valid in more than one programming language
Polyglot may also refer to an amalgam of languages, such as those created when groups of people who speak different languages spend extended periods of time together. (see: Pidgin)
The term linguist is often used to refer to a polyglot. But this usage should be distinguished from the use of linguist to refer to someone knowledgeable about the scientific study of language, linguistics
I believe she has a few regional... over- emphasized accents
She can only speak one language[:D][:D][:D]
Talk about B.S.
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quote:"I think America is ready for a multilingual president," Clinton said during a campaign stop at a charter school in Greenville, S.C.
America has had a multilingual president for the past 6 years...0 -
She sure is a multiligual candidate. She can talk with her mouth and out of her @$$ at the same time. 0 -
I think it all comes from witch side of the face their talking out of. The american indian said it best " pale face speaks with forked tongue." 0
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