Sausages……..how.

I fear we've had our chips now...

MissAdventure

I can think of much bigger gaffes.

This is what I’d call big, a viral gaffe by Trump, it’s all over YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc1W_Pys88U

It's pretty funky, though.

There's some fabulous clips on Tiktok of the Trump comment.

Well there was, they've moved on now to Keir Starmer and his sausages

When I heard him say it on the news, I actually couldn’t believe my ears. I thought I’d misheard, but I looked at my husband, and I knew I hadn’t.

I expect his tunes are absolute bangers!!

Well it was a banger of a gaffe - let's hope it's not out the frying pan and into the fire

Smirk...

He's got egg on his face now.....😁

youtu.be/F30oGnipOYo?si=lu0fqAqd0IO0aCEu

You gotta laugh sometimes... the people in charge.

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MissAdventure

I expect his tunes are absolute bangers!!

Hot dog jumping frog Albuquerque

I expect his brain just misread the autocue somehow.

He corrected himself straightaway, I bet he wished the floor would open up….

Did he not rehearse his speech a few times though? In order to familiarise himself with the content? It shouldn't have been new to him.

Having done lots of public speaking, I know from experience that it’s when you’ve practiced your speech that you are more likely to make errors like that. If you haven’t practiced there are a lot of ers, ahs and pauses. If you’re nervous but practiced you are likely get your words wrong. A good example is Charles and Diana’s wedding where they both made errors, and the names were transposed.

It wasn't a joke, it wasn't funny and it had absolutely no connection with the comment about Nazanin Zahari-Radcliffe.

Are your speeches perfect on every occasion eazybee, if so hats off to you. Kings, presidents and PMs fluff, but clearly you don’t.

Far from funny to even repeat.

I dont blame the PM.
We all make word mistakes.

Interesting, Casdon, Charles and Diana were repeating words from memory, NOT reading from an autocue. When you read you follow, the phonetics structures you learnt when a child, and it is very unusual not to get the sound of the beginning letter correct. I think Chomsky explains that in his Linguistics.

escaped

Interesting, Casdon, Charles and Diana were repeating words from memory, NOT reading from an autocue. When you read you follow, the phonetics structures you learnt when a child, and it is very unusual not to get the sound of the beginning letter correct. I think Chomsky explains that in his Linguistics.

That’s if every word you speak is from the autocue escaped, which isn’t the case in most speeches. If you’re speaking to an audience you keep your head up and address them, speaking from memory and only refer to the autocue as a prompt.

Wyllow3

I don't think it's funny to joke around the awful hostage situation in Gaza, the families, so much suffering. Have respect.

Horrendous. Totally unfunny. Something seriously wrong with this level of disassociation.

merlotgran

MissAdventure

I expect his tunes are absolute bangers!!

Hot dog jumping frog Albuquerque

Cringe. There are actual human beings, children , families caught up in this war.

Indeed, but if the autocue goes fuzzy, or worst case scenario freezes, as happens, you need to know what you are saying is correct. In this instance, you also have a hard copy you can switch to without losing a word, and many speakers use both in order to vary eye contact or head position. Then, there's using your memory.
It's definitely a skill.
For me, its the entire unfortunate muddling of the word.

escaped

Indeed, but if the autocue goes fuzzy, or worst case scenario freezes, as happens, you need to know what you are saying is correct. In this instance, you also have a hard copy you can switch to without losing a word, and many speakers use both in order to vary eye contact or head position. Then, there's using your memory.
It's definitely a skill.
For me, its the entire unfortunate muddling of the word.

I know, I’ve used them, and as you say it’s a skill. It’s easy to get things wrong though however much you practice, and I’ve always found if I was nervous I made more mistakes than if I was speaking ad lib, answering questions etc. at the end. People who don’t give speeches underestimate the skills needed.