This is an very engaging analysis of Sarah Palin’s use of words, her rhetorical flourishes.
It turns out that she relies on Latinate phrasing:
“Here, “politics being kind of brutal business” defines the circumstances under which the action occurs. It looks like a construction that will be familiar to anybody who took Latin in school: the ablative absolute.
“An ablative absolute in Latin is a particular kind of clause that, according to one definition, “modifies the whole sentence as an adverb modifies the action of a verb.” An example, courtesy of The Latin Library: “His verbis dictis, Caesar discedit.” Translation: “With these words having been said, Caesar departs.”
“In fact, a lot of what Sarah Palin says sounds like it’s been poorly translated from the Latin. With her “he who” and “one who,” she’d sound almost Ciceronian if it weren’t for the holes in her logic and the way those complicated sentences sometimes dribble off into vaguely sinister, possibly offensive nonsense.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I just tried typing “Palin” and autospiel substituted “Palindrome”.
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I recall my high school days in Latin class where I learned the declension of nouns and conjugation of verbs. I plowed through “Caesar’s Gallic Wars” and Cicero with great gusto. These works contained phrases such as “the war having been fought” or the “campaign being long and painful.” Sarah Palin may use these constructions when speaking. Unlike the writers of the Latin classics whose ideas and ideology revealed great minds behind the words, Sarah Palin’s stilted speech reminds me more of someone suffering from aphasia. Maybe she was dropped on her head as a baby? That may explain a lot.
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Gobbly-gook defines her language, not Latin
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TAGO!
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“With her “he who” and “one who,” she’d sound almost Ciceronian”
Or, more likely, she wants to sound Godly and Biblical.
From Isaiah:
“But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck; He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood; He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol. ”
“He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. ”
“Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: ”
From John:
“He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.”
Or she wants to sound Harry Potterian? “He who shall not be named”. 🙂
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Best explanation so far!
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Sarah Palin has poor mastery of the language.
She needs English lessons and public speaking courses.
I sincerely believe that with more education and practice, she can overcome this.
But even if she were to do so, she should still keep her big stupid thoughts to herself.
You betcha!
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Are Sarah Palin and Campbell Brown, two separate people?
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