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Bertiespeak or Bertie-speak〔〔 is a way of speaking the English language spoken by former Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Ahern's use of Bertiespeak has been credited as playing an integral part in the Northern Ireland peace process and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair was noted on at least one occasion to have allowed Ahern to use Bertiespeak when confronted with a tricky question posed by a journalist. On another occasion when Unionists on a visit to Government Buildings in Dublin made a complaint Ahern was said to have "drowned" them "in a torrent of Bertie-speak", according to Deaglán De Bréadún.〔 References to Bertiespeak appeared regularly in the Irish media during Ahern's administration. Will Hanafin's ''De Little Book of Bertie'', published in 2001, features numerous examples of Bertiespeak. ==Description== Bertiespeak has been described by witnesses as being constructed of sentences which are "coherent and logical" when taken individually but are "calculated to bemuse and mystify" when said consecutively, with one observer remarking: "You would want to be Einstein to understand it".〔 Pat Leahy, writing in ''The Sunday Business Post'' in 2002, suggested in relation to Ahern's speech, "one is seldom in doubt about what he means, but there is sometimes confusion over just what he is actually saying" before citing one example from a press conference during which Ahern said "neutrality is not and never has been anything but absolutely clear". ''The Sunday Times'' book reviewer Edward King described Bertiespeak as being "characterised by a combination of malapropisms, grammatical infelicities and general confusion" and said the following was the most famous example of Bertiespeak: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bertiespeak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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