A Speech Made of Half-Sentences

In his television series Loriot, broadcast by Radio Bremen from 1976 to 1978, the humorist Loriot parodied speeches in the Bundestag. His speaker produces half-sentences that never end. Politik bedeutet, und davon sollte man ausgehen, das ist doch – ohne darum herum zu reden – in Anbetracht der Situation … Politics means, and one should assume this, that is surely, without talking around it, in view of the situation … Hier und heute stellen sich die Fragen, und ich glaube, Sie stimmen mit mir überein, wenn ich sage: Letzten Endes … Here and today the questions arise, and I believe you agree with me when I say: in the end …

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