Obama's "is is" redux

Language Log 2013-04-30

Summary:

Betty Ann Bardell tweets: .@bgzimmer For those who missed the score from today’s W.H. Press Conf.: “is, is” 5 - “as best as they can” 1. swampland.time.com/2013/04/30/bar… — Betty Ann Bardell (@BettyAnnBardell) April 30, 2013 Last October, in my LL post "Obama's 'is is'," I considered Bryan Garner's assertion that President Obama is "addicted to 'is is.'" After [...]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4593

Updated:

04/30/2013, 20:06

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Tags:

language and politics variation

Authors:

Ben Zimmer

Date tagged:

04/30/2013, 20:11

Date published:

04/30/2013, 19:40