Obama Mispronounces "Corpsman" At Prayer Breakfast

[natty bumppo 297]

Cabin boy?

powder monkey

[Nagishkaw 510]

Warrant 0fficer?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

OK, which one was the made-up word - apart from Nukular, of course

Misunderestimate?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Mispronouncing a real word and making a word up that never existed before are hardly the same quality of gaff...

In other words...

Clever people introduce new words to a language. Bumbling buffoons mispronounce existing words. if you AX me.

Then again we could go with your explanation and say that CORPSE-man never existed before, which do you prefer?

One thing we DO know. If Obama is flying an airplane straight into the ground and we are one parachute short, we know who will stay with the plane! Keep it up. Charming. Whatever you do...don't change a thing and keep pushing for that healthcare reform...will you please?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Misunderestimate?

Well at least that SHOULD be a word. Obama is going to need it soon to explain the economy...and healthcare...and GM...and...Gitmo...and Gays in the military...and taxes on people making less than $250,000 per year. Seems like Bush did Obama a favor.

I thought Bush's best was "strategery" (who the hell knows if it is spelled right) But there was so many. Obama is such a lightweight, he can't even mispronounce words in the big leagues, he is just not presidential at all.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

In other words...

Clever people introduce new words to a language. Bumbling buffoons mispronounce existing words. if you AX me.

Then again we could go with your explanation and say that CORPSE-man never existed before, which do you prefer?

One thing we DO know. If Obama is flying an airplane straight into the ground and we are one parachute short, we know who will stay with the plane! Keep it up. Charming. Whatever you do...don't change a thing and keep pushing for that healthcare reform...will you please?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I wonder if obama has made enough verbal gaffes to fill entire books? Bush did, literally.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I wonder if obama has made enough verbal gaffes to fill entire books? Bush did, literally.

See how much better Bush was!!!!!!! Obama can't even write a book anyone will buy!!!!!!!!

[alienlovechild 75]

Misunderestimate?

Critics got a lot of mileage out of that one.

[웃 910]

If he doesn't get corpsman right he will surely f-up boatswain's Mate and forecastle.

LoL. I definitely thought they were pronounced "Boats-Wayne" and "Four-Castle"...

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/boatswain

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/forecastle

[FortLaudy 10]

LoL. I definitely thought they were pronounced "Boats-Wayne" and "Four-Castle"...

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/forecastle

There's a difference too between US pronounciation and UK for "Four-Castle" lol

I wonder if obama has made enough verbal gaffes to fill entire books? Bush did, literally.

He had 8 years to do it within too

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Well at least that SHOULD be a word. Obama is going to need it soon to explain the economy...and healthcare...and GM...and...Gitmo...and Gays in the military...and taxes on people making less than $250,000 per year. Seems like Bush did Obama a favor.

I thought Bush's best was "strategery" (who the hell knows if it is spelled right) But there was so many. Obama is such a lightweight, he can't even mispronounce words in the big leagues, he is just not presidential at all.

No it shouldn't. Either you overestimate or you underestimate.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

No it shouldn't. Either you overestimate or you underestimate.

what if you underestimate but you are wrong? For example, Alla says we will spend $200 on groceries and I disagree and underestomate that we will spend $150, but then we actually spend $225. Then did I "under-underestmate" or would it be "over-underestimate"? You see the whole double negative dilemma?

MIS-underestimate is "gender neutral" so to speak and covers BOTH situations. I think it will be very useful for Obama. It is like when they said "global Warming" or (a few years before) "global cooling" Then they figured out this whole thing was far to definitive and simply said "global climate change" and covered all the bases and protected their taxes and funding either way. At least it is a USEFUL non-word.

Corpse-men is just useless.

No it shouldn't. Either you overestimate or you underestimate.

besides...who are we to say. we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway and use "lb" to abbreviate "pound" (Alla still calls it a "lub" and can make words up more better than Bush any day)

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

If you thought you were going to spend $150 and spent $225, then you underestimated how much you were going to spend.

If you estimated that you were going to spend $400 and then spent $225, then you overestimated.

[I'm Gone 60]

Bottom line in all this is that I don't think Obama can speak without a teleprompter and if Bush did this ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, The Daily Show would have been sure to run it, but will not say anything about wonder boy screwing up.