He’s an ass-kicker.” Like Christie, Kasich can be a compelling speaker he’s a good storyteller, and his brusqueness gives him a similar sort of anti-charisma. His will is tremendous, and he gets people to follow him. “But here’s the thing-he makes things happen. “He does have a tendency to ready-fire-aim,” says Mike Hartley, who helped run Kasich’s 2010 campaign for governor and worked in his administration. They describe Kasich as a sort of heartland Chris Christie-brash, decisive, authentic-without all the baggage. >But while Kasich can be rude-and at times even genuinely nasty-he is also prone to spontaneous displays of empathy, frequently becoming emotional as he talks about the plight of people “in the shadows.” To his allies, these traits are two sides of the same coin. At a Kasich press conference I attended at a charter school in Cleveland, he interrupted several speakers, wandered off to rummage on a nearby teacher’s desk as he was being introduced, and gleefully insulted the Cleveland Browns, to a smattering of boos. He said that my job, writing about politics and politicians, was “really a dumb thing to do.” Later, he singled me out in a meeting of cabinet officials to upbraid me for what he considered a stupid question in one of our interviews. >I spent several days with Kasich in Ohio in February, and during that time he told me, repeatedly, that he did not read The Atlantic-and his wife didn’t, either. As I was writing this article, Kasich’s press secretary, Rob Nichols, helpfully emailed me the thesaurus entry for “prickly,” sensing that I would need it. A top Ohio Republican donor once publicly vowed not to give Kasich a penny after finding him to be “unpleasantly arrogant.” As a congressman, Kasich sometimes lashed out at constituents-one who called him a “redneck” in a 1985 letter got a reply recommending he “enroll in a remedial course on protocol”-and when Kasich was thrown out of a Grateful Dead concert for trying to join the band onstage, he allegedly threatened to use his clout to have the band banned from D.C. >Lobbyists in Columbus warn their clients before meeting the governor not to take it personally if he berates them. >The thing about John Kasich is, he’s kind of a jerk. It seems Kasich is suppressing a personality that is not all that dissimilar from Trump's. Step into the wayback machine and read this article from the atlantic. Jeez, crikey, and doggone are some others, too.>Kasich is a mild-mannered sensible candidate to balance Trump. There are many other minced oaths, historically including Gadzooks (apparently, God’s hooks, referring to Jesus being nailed to the cross) and zounds ( Christ’s wounds). YHVH (or YHWH) became expanded as Yahweh or Jehovah. The Tetragrammaton is the Hebrew word for God, consisting of four letters transliterated usually as YHVH, now pronounced as Adonai (“my Lord”) or Elohim (plural form of a word meaning “God”), in substitution for the original pronunciation forbidden since the 2nd or 3rd century b.c. In Judaism, the name of God is considered too sacred to be uttered by us mere mortals. This is where gosh, golly, and gee come into play-a way out of the linguistic trouble that comes with shouting the name of one’s God in surprise, anger, frustration, or the like. Christians and Jews observe the Ten Commandments, the second of which forbids taking the Lord’s name in vain. Many faiths and cultures consider blasphemy a taboo. These types of words are also sometimes called minced oaths. We also often refer to swear words as profanity, a word which historically referred to an irreverent, contemptuous attitude towards the scared. Blasphemy involves language that shows contempt or irreverence towards sacred things-you know, God. Gosh, golly, and gee specifically avoid blasphemy. They often come into play with words concerned with religion, sex, death, and excreta (that’s a fancy word for poop and pee, which themselves can be used as euphemisms for stronger words).įor example, if you wanted to employ a euphemism to say that someone died, you might say that he “passed away” or “departed.” Or if you wanted to avoid that naughty F-word, you might say, “screw the pooch” or “shut the front door.” So, what’s a euphemistic alteration?Įuphemisms substitute a mild or vague expression for one that is considered to be offensive, harsh, or vulgar. Last but not least is gee, an Americanism tracked back to 1890–95. Of the three, gosh is recorded the earliest, around 1750–60. While this folksy trio are informal interjections, they are also euphemistic alterations of the word God or, in the case of gee, Jesus. Where did golly, gosh, and gee come from? Gosh, golly, and gee casually express surprise or excitement, right? Well, yes, but when they were first introduced to the English language, these short words had a much more serious origin and purpose.
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