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captain queeg

(11,780 posts)
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 03:37 PM Nov 2017

"North Korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned. It is a hell that no person deserves."

That's actually not a bad quote, I'm sure he didn't come up with it on his own. I think "envisioned" has 4 syllables?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41910167

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"North Korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned. It is a hell that no person deserves." (Original Post) captain queeg Nov 2017 OP
It must be an interesting job writing his speeches jberryhill Nov 2017 #1
He barely sputtered it off the teleprompter C_U_L8R Nov 2017 #2
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
1. It must be an interesting job writing his speeches
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 03:52 PM
Nov 2017

Yeah, good line.

With "envisioned", you do have to wonder whether the writer would have worried that he'd flub it. I'd have gone with "promised" or something like that.
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