Misspeaking About Misspeaking

[furrbear]

Over the Bosnia kerfluffle, Mrs Clinton insisted yesterday that she had simply misspoken, characterising the false claim as a “minor blip” among the “millions of words” she spoke every day:

“You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things – millions of words a day – so if I misspoke,that was just a misstatement,”

A millions words a day, huh?

Sounds good I guess.

<sarcasm>Well, we all "know" math is "hard", "especially for girls".</sarcasm>

Ever notice how politicians tend to speak slower, allowing time to emphasize words?

There are 86400 seconds in a day. To get in a million words in 24 hours would require over 23 words per second.

Professional auctioneers have been clocked at 400 words per minute. At that rate, a million words would take speaking non-stop for 42 hours.

Nothing like a wee bit of hyperbole to "explain" away a misstatement. 'Thousands ' just doesn't carry the whollop of 'Millions'. Too bad 'millions' doesn't carry the believability of the former.

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[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for a million words per week, she'd only need to speak like a cattle auctioneer for six hours per day.