字幕文本: From the beginning there is a conscious movement in America among the earlier patriots to create an American language. It was Thomas Jefferson; he created the word “neologize”. He wrote to John Adams, he actually said that our duty of Americans is to neologize, is to create Americanisms which was in a sense of word that was of American origin. Among the early guys, there was a feeling that American English was gonna be different. Madison comes with a word like “SQUATTER”. John Quincy Adams comes up with a word “gag rule”. This continues right through. Woodrow Wilson loved use slang and he was criticized heavily for it. He would talk about the economy as if it were a football team: “let’s get going. Come on, let’s get this thing moving”. Then curious which is poor that president of United States would use something like that. Probably the best example of a word that really really came out of nowhere was a word of Warren Harding, he murdered the English language routinely in his 1920 campaign. He came up with the phrase “Founding fathers” to describe the people who wrote the constitution. And before 1920, they were known as the framers. By giving them the term “the Founding Fathers”, they almost gave them a biblical or of a much more powerful collective presence. And when President Eisenhower do warn the American people in his farewell address to beware the military industry complex, I think that was a, one of the powerful single phrases. ”we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” Because it did in fact warned people that we were in a situation going over bored in its use of tax money to buy weapons and buy missiles, and coming from a military…. I think it was an extraordinary return. And now everybody heard of George Bush in his…. “so I heard the voice and I read the front page, and I know the speculation, but I am the decider.” In which are interesting because some of the George Bushisms, you know they made great deal of fun about “Embetter”. “to work hard to embetter themselves. I wanna thank you for your example. ” And I went to the Oxford English dictionary, which actually has a word exactly the same meaning, which entered in to use in language in 1583, but has been long disused which is sort of recast. “We unleashed a way of innovation and create new….” In president Obama’s, I had a couple of interesting ones, the one that I liked a lot is, “This is our generation’s sputnik moment” As if we are referring to the launch of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union’s launch of “Sputnik” in 1957 which cost United States to reexamine a lot of things. “I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people”——- Roosevelt’s Nomination Address We do take our national identity from words. There are distinctions which are still valid and there is still part of “Who you are?”