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US politics, kool-aid, Obama and a little linguistics

I assure you that this post is about linguistics just as much as it is about American politics. “…the students go and, sort of, drink the kool-aid of a wonderful speech…” This short quote is from Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell who was trying to convince a group of college students to support Hillary Clinton as [...]

September 1, 2008  Tags: Clinton, kool-aid, meme, Obama  Posted in: Linguistics, world events  No Comments

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