LOL! Highly unlikely. Shit, he’s been changing his tune everyday since Nov 4th. The only briefs he’s getting are the ones he puts on in the morning.
And another observation, I have a sneaky suspicion that English isn’t Dave’s native language. I have a friend who’s Korean and sounds identical to Dave, he learned a lot of English from watching movies in the 1980s. Another tip off is Dave is constantly mispronouncing simple English words or especially names of American towns. I’m going to start taking note of these mispronunciations and one day will post about it.
TLDR; Dave isn’t being briefed by anyone but the Internet.
So I was a Korean Linguist in the military for several years, and I can guarantee you he's not natively Korean.
Now, why does he mispronounce words occasionally? I've thought about that for a while too, and here's what I came up with: Dave isn't writing his own scripts. Dave is the radio voice, the mouthpiece if you will, for whoever is writing these scripts.
What leads me to that conclusion? People don't often use words that they don't know how to pronounce. For instance, if I used the word "Plenary" in daily conversation, then I'd know how to pronounce it. If, however, I don't use that word at all and I encountered it in a script that I was reading, then I would just say it however it sounded natural.
The problem with a word like "Plenary" is that most people who have never used it before don't know which syllable is emphasized and often emphasize the wrong one. They see the word and they compare it to other words that are similar like, Canary, and then they put the emphASSis on the wrong SylABle.
That's what I see a lot when Dave is doing the X22 report. I routinely see him trying to pronounce a word he's clearly never used before, and when people are writing their own scripts, they tend to lean heavily into what they know.
I could be completely wrong, and I'm not really all that invested in my theory, but it's my pet theory and I'm sticking to it for now. :)
Dave being briefed at the highest level into the plan? Sounds unlikely.
LOL! Highly unlikely. Shit, he’s been changing his tune everyday since Nov 4th. The only briefs he’s getting are the ones he puts on in the morning.
And another observation, I have a sneaky suspicion that English isn’t Dave’s native language. I have a friend who’s Korean and sounds identical to Dave, he learned a lot of English from watching movies in the 1980s. Another tip off is Dave is constantly mispronouncing simple English words or especially names of American towns. I’m going to start taking note of these mispronunciations and one day will post about it.
TLDR; Dave isn’t being briefed by anyone but the Internet.
So I was a Korean Linguist in the military for several years, and I can guarantee you he's not natively Korean.
Now, why does he mispronounce words occasionally? I've thought about that for a while too, and here's what I came up with: Dave isn't writing his own scripts. Dave is the radio voice, the mouthpiece if you will, for whoever is writing these scripts.
What leads me to that conclusion? People don't often use words that they don't know how to pronounce. For instance, if I used the word "Plenary" in daily conversation, then I'd know how to pronounce it. If, however, I don't use that word at all and I encountered it in a script that I was reading, then I would just say it however it sounded natural.
The problem with a word like "Plenary" is that most people who have never used it before don't know which syllable is emphasized and often emphasize the wrong one. They see the word and they compare it to other words that are similar like, Canary, and then they put the emphASSis on the wrong SylABle.
That's what I see a lot when Dave is doing the X22 report. I routinely see him trying to pronounce a word he's clearly never used before, and when people are writing their own scripts, they tend to lean heavily into what they know.
I could be completely wrong, and I'm not really all that invested in my theory, but it's my pet theory and I'm sticking to it for now. :)
good observation!