It is clear that many politicians never learned Latin while they were in school. If they did, maybe the future tense would not be such a difficulty for them:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=147534&title=bushs-future-tense
(i would suggest copy/paste...I really don't understand how to make links clickable, or how to make them play. Used to, I think, but not anymore!)
I find it hilarious that our prez can make such a blunder, in front of the army and on t.v. It reminds me of something I would do, trying to learn a foreign language, not really in speaking my native one.
-Stacy S.
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Stacey et alii carissimi,
If that youtube video is not evidence for the importance of the sequence of tenses, I don't know what is! Thank you for putting it up there, I laughed so much---someone teach this man some Intermediate Latin, please!
EM.
LOL! Seriously, Prof. M! Someone needs to do that, or at least teach him Remedial English 101. I think he must have been one of those children who are "left behind" that he's always talking about in his speeches on education in America. Great clip, Stacy!
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