Doonesbury Say What?

[thewayne]

"When I hear Chinese or Japanese, it sounds like all the same word. And I can't comprehend anybody understanding it."
— Rush Limbaugh

Funny how many foreigners think the same of the English language with all its homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms. Personally, I can't comprehend Rush Limbaugh: I can identify the individual words, but they make no logical sense the way they're organized.

Comments

[moiraj.livejournal.com]

This is just one step up - or down, or to the side - of saying that Japanese is really just gibberish. For some reason, it reminds me of old American movies in which the aboriginal characters spoke English and the editors merely played their words backwards, rather than trying to dig up an appropriate vocabulary.

[kylejcrb.livejournal.com]

That's because you're an idiot, Rush.

[silveradept]

...the next time anybody wonders why Rush was fired from ESPN, point them at that quote.

Also, I think that the company that makes Rosetta Stone should send Mr. Limbaugh, free of charge, their Japanese and Chinese language courses, so he has no excuse to use that phrase again.