03.26.08
Misspeach as a Politician or Corporate Executive
I worry about Hillary’s recent Misspeak. I have misspoke before, when I thought I was quoting someone and flubbed what they said, or I misspoke and inverted or changed some numbers unintentionally. But the difference in my view is intent. Like when you misstep, you didn’t mean to fall off the roof you misstepped. Remembering the girl who greeted you at the airport as a sniper who you ran for duck and cover is not so much misspeaking but lying.
As an engineer I often find that is can get caught up in misspeach when quoting a specification. EIA-708 and EIA-709 are related but different spec’s, but 708 is about captioning and 709 is about color space, so if you mis-speak you can find you sent someone on a wild goose chase.
If you quote some one 6 milliamps when you mean 6 amps they may have a very bad day.
Or if you ship something to Las Vegas, NV instead of Las Vegas, NM. These are all mis-speach.
When a CEO says that his sales will be up 15% and he meant 1.5% that becomes a bit harder of a call.