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With Palin, there's no "there" there

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A friend wondered why Sarah Palin so often inserts the word "there" gratuitously into her statements:

"There was deception there..."

"Barack Obama though, another story there."

Below is my off-the-cuff response to that question, ah, there:

A linguist would probably have a precise term for such a construction; but my own amateur take is it's a verbal crutch she has developed to compensate for a lack of precision in her thinking and a lack of mastery of sentence and paragraph structure.


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