Language Expert: Donald Trump's Way Of Speaking Is 'Oddly Adolescent' | The 11th Hour | MSNBC

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. >>> WELCOME BACK TO FRIDAY NIGHT BROADCAST. LET'S AGREE FOR THE SAKE OF THE NEXT CONVERSATION THAT DONALD TRUMP USES THE MOST COLORFUL LANGUAGE OF ANY PRESIDENT AT LEAST IN THE MODERN ERA AND SAYS SOME OF THE MOST QUESTIONABLE THINGS. AND THAT IS WHERE OUR NEXT GUEST COMES IN. JOHN IS A LINGUIST. HE HAS A PH.D.. HE TEACHES AT COLUMBIA. HE TOO IS COLORFUL WHEN TALKING ABOUT DONALD TRUMP AND SPECIFICALLY HOW THIS PRESIDENT TALKS. THAT'S WHY WE TALKED ABOUT IT WITH JOHN McWHARTER. >> THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. >> THANK YOU, BRIAN. >> I'VE BEEN WANTING TO ASK YOU, WHAT IS YOUR LING WIS TICKS DEFINITION OF THIS PRESIDENT? >> DONALD TRUMP LINGUISTIKALLY IS UNADORNED. THIS IS THE BASICS. THIS IS WHAT LANGUAGE WAS UNDOUBTEDLY LIKE WHEN IT FIRST EMERGED AMONG PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T HAVE WRITING AND WERE FIRST GETTING THEIR VERBAL SEA LEGS. THIS IS WHERE IT STARTED. AND SO IN THAT WAY, AS IN SO MANY OTHERS, DONALD TRUMP IS AN ORIGINAL. >> THAT WOULD MEAN THAT EDUCATION AND SCHOOLING HAS HAD NO EFFECT ON HIS USE OF LANGUAGE WAJ. HE'S QUICK TO REMIEPD US HE WENT TO THE BEST SCHOOLS. >> AND LEARNED NOTHING IN THEM. HE SPEAKS LIKE ONE WHO PAID NO EDUCATION TO ONE OF THE GOALS OF EDUCATION WHICH IS TO REFINE OUR SPEECH. HE USES THOSE SAME WAYS OF SPEAKING IN WHAT MOST OF US USED TO CONSIDER FORMAL. >> I THINK IN YOUR LINE OF WORK THEY CALL IT A TAG. WHEN SOMETHING IS ADDED TO THE END OF A TRADITIONAL SENTENCE. SO OFTEN HE WILL TAG A SENTENCE WITH BELIEVE ME, BELIEVE ME, AND ENFORCER. SOMETHING HE THOUGHT WAS LACKING IN THE ORIGINAL SENTENCE. >> UH-HUH. IT'S THAT HE'S REINFORCING. ALSO HE'S USING ORAL SPEECH. WE'RE CHECKING TO SEE THAT THE OTHER PERSON WE'RE SAYING, THEY'RE IN THE SAME BOAT WE ARE. THAT'S WHAT "YOU KNOW IS, " THINGS LIKE LOL IN TEXTING. HE DOES THAT, TOO, BUT ONCE AGAIN IT'S NOT IN TEXTING, HE'S DOING IT IN FORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH MEANS THAT HE NEVER LEAVES THE REALM OF THE CASUAL WHEN HE SPEAKS. WHICH IS UNLIKE EVEN SAY INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES WHERE THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS READ NG AND WRITING, THERE'S ALWAYS A HIGH AND LOW WAY OF TALKING. THE CHIEF DOESN'T GET UP AND RUN HIS MOUTH, OURS DOES. >> THERE'S A FRIEND OF OUR BROADCAST WHO WORKS FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND SAYS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP THERE ARE VISUAL AND AUDIO TELLS THAT HE PEPPERS HIS SPEECH WITH WHERE IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S COMING, YOU KNOW WHAT'S COMING. I WANT TO RUN A MONTAGE OF A TRUMP PHRASE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW. IN HIS READING OF IT. PEOPLE DON'T KNOW FOR DONALD TRUMP MEANS I JUST LEARNED. HERE'S THE EXAMPLE. >> FRANCE IS AMERICA'S FIRST AND OLDEST ALLY. OUR FIRST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN RAN HIS FIRST F CAMPAIGN TORE PUBLIC OFFICE IN 1832. GREAT PRESIDENT. MOST PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW HE WAS A REPUBLICAN, RIGHT? DOES ANYONE KNOW? LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT. PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE WE ARE A UNBELIEVABLY DIVIDED COUNTRY. I HAVE TO TELL YOU IT'S A UNBELIEVABLY COMPLEX SUBJECT. NOBODY KNEW HEALTH CARE COULD BE TO COMPLICATED. >> YOU'RE LAUGHING, WHY? >> THAT ASPECT OF HIM, I CAN'T SAY ANYTHING PARTICULARLY LINGUISTIC ABOUT IT. HE HAS THE NEED TO BE THE ALPHA MALE, THE IDEA MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THIS IS COMING FROM THE SAME WELL. THE IDEA IS HE'S ALWAYS THE ONE WHO'S ONE STEP AHEAD. IN THAT, FRANKLY, I DON'T FIND HIM LINGUISTICALLY CHALLENGED AS SOMEBODY WHO'S AUDIBLY ADOLESCENT FOR SOMEBODY WHO'S A SENIOR CITIZEN. >> WHAT ABOUT HIS OTHER FAVORITES, BELIEVE ME AND MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, OR MORE THAN WE'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE? >> SOME OF THAT IS BECAUSE THEY'RE REALLY ONLY -- I'M SORRY TO SAY IT, BUT THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY THOUGHTS. AND SO OFTEN HE'S SPEAKING, AND I THINK HE RUNS OUT OF NEW INSIGHTS SO HE COVERS IT WITH THINGS LIKE BELIEVE ME OR IT CAN'T EVER BE THAT SOMETHING IS BAD, IT'S VERY BAD OR VERY, VERY BAD. THOSE ARE HIS EQUIVALENTS OF ROUGHLY, UM OR SCRATCHING HIS HEAD. I HI THE CONTENT OF WHAT HE'S SAYING IS SLIMMER THAN THE BULK OF THE VERBIAGE THAT HE SPUS OUT. >> HE'S 71 YEARS OLD NOW PRESIDENT IN A AGE OF INSTAND TAKENIOUS FACT CHECKING. HE'S NOT USED TO HIS AD-LIB BEING FACT CHECKED IN REAL TIME. DO YOU THINK HE'S BUMPED UP AGAINST THAT DYNAMIC. >> I DON'T THINK HE'LL CHANGE IN THAT WAY. HE SIMPLY HAS NO DEODORANT WEARING SUNDAY BEST WAY OF SPEAKING, THAT INCLUDES YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MORE RESPONSIBLE SENSE OF TRUTH THAN WHEN YOU'RE JUST BSING WITH YOUR PALS. WHEN WE SPEAK CASUALLY ALL THE TIME WE SAY THINGS WHERE MAYBE IF WE CHECKED UP ON IT THINGS MIGHT BE DIFFERENT. HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND IF YOU'RE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, YOU CAN'T JUST TALK. IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE JUST TALKING BECAUSE YOU'RE MOVING YOUR MOUTH, BUT THERE'S THIS OTHER ART THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO MASTER. HE WASN'T NRD THAT SORT OF THING IN SCHOOL. THIS IS SOMEBODY WHOS NUMBER TO THE ARTFUL. HE HAS A NARCOTIC JOY IN DISMISSAL AND BEE LITTLE MEANT RATHER THAN BUILDING AND DECORATING. AND SO HE'S GOING TO KEEP RUNNING UP AGAINST THE WALL. HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU'RE PRESIDENT YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THINGS WHICH ARE WHAT WE CALL TRUTH THINGS IN LINGUISTIC. >> ARE YOU JOINING THE INTERSECTION OF NARSY SISM AND LINGUISTIC. >> HE IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN YOU GET SOMEBODY EXTREMELY ARTFUL AND I THINK IT'S SAFE TO SAY, CLINICALLY NARCISSISTIC AND TALKING ALL THE TIME TO US IN OUR HOUSES ABOUT SERIOUS THINGS. THAT'S WHAT'S SO STRIKING ABOUT LISTENING TO THIS PERSON TALK. WHAT'S UNFORTUNATE IS HOW MUCH WE'VE HAD TO LISTEN TO IT. I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE UNDER ANY IMPRESSION THAT IT'S GOING TO CHANGE BECAUSE WE'RE IN A INFORMAL ERA. IN A WAY, HE'S A PRODUCT OF SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN GOING ON SINCE THE MID '60s AND IN MANY CASE IT'S IN GOOD WAYS. IN AMERICA YOU AND I WOULD HAVE HAD TO WEAR DID HE DOORA ASSEN SUITS EVEN ON HOT SUMMER DAYS, BUT SOMETHING ELSE THAT LEFT WAS YOU PUT SPEECH IN ITS SUNDAY BEST. ALL OF US FAKE IT TO A EXTENT. WE COULD HAVE PREDICTED SOMEBODY WOULD COME ALONG WHO WOULD ONLY TALK RATHER THAN SPEAK AND BECOME PRESIDERESIDENT OF THE U STATES. I DON'T THINK TRUMP IS GOING TO BE LAST IN THAT

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Length: 7min 30sec (450 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 15 2017

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👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/AutoModerator 📅︎︎ Sep 28 2017 🗫︎ replies

Well....have you talked to any Trump supporters recently?

It shouldn't surprise you that they think somebody with the mental acuity of a D+ level 8th grader is their god-emperor.

👍︎︎ 14 👤︎︎ u/[deleted] 📅︎︎ Sep 28 2017 🗫︎ replies

What an insult to adolescents. I knew more words than "tremendous" and "sad" when I was a teenager.

👍︎︎ 6 👤︎︎ u/RussianBotnetsAbound 📅︎︎ Sep 28 2017 🗫︎ replies

If you've ever spoken to trump supporter, theres nothing "odd" about the childish way he talks. It is very intentional given the intelligence and attention span of his base.

👍︎︎ 4 👤︎︎ u/Fun_in_dysfunction 📅︎︎ Sep 28 2017 🗫︎ replies

America gets the president we deserve, turn off your tv, put down your phone, and read a fricken book