Monday, May 27, 2013

Exploding syntax

Senator Linsey-Woolsey Graham (R-SC):
At the end of the day, this is the most tone deaf president I've ever -- could imagine and making such a speech at a time when our homeland is trying to be -- attacked literally every day.
Obviously you can't hold a man responsible for the particular meanings of his words when he's passed over into this kind of agrammatical shrapnel field, but do you think that "trying to be attacked" is trying to tell us something? Like, perpetual war is not just OK with him but something to be actively worked for?
Exploding Head Syndrome, from Modern Medical Dictionary:
a type of hypnagogic auditory hallucination in which a person perceives one or more very loud noises which he or she likens to an explosion, crashing waves, screams or clanging, often accompanied by flashes of light but not pain, which seems to come from inside his /her head... The attacks typically occur shortly after falling asleep, are clustered over several days to weeks followed by months of remission and are not linked to dreams, as they may occur whilst awake. They are more common when the patient is stressed or exhausted. 

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