"There's no expression or protected speech in that kind of context".
Still, even in a legal system that protects free speech, the government had long been able to regulate speech in all kinds of ways.
King James does not use sub-clauses or dependent clauses; it is a direct English, and one you can still hear, even now, in northern speech, the kind we celebrate in Alan Bennett.
That is, speech perception's objects differ in kind from the sounds and acoustic structures we hear in general audition (Liberman et al. 1967, Liberman and Mattingly 1985).
(What the hell, after all, is a four-hundred-and-fifty-page graph?) And it doesn't sound much different in kind from the speech McConaughey gave on Oscar night, summarized in the video as: "And if you want to give me your little Hollywood trophy, I'll come.
He dresses in a cultured but casual way, an aesthetic captured in his speech, in which phatic blips like "kind of" or "sort of" are interspersed with terms like "Richter-esque".
The judges ruled that the law's requirements constitute "compelled speech" that is "ideological in intent and in kind".
I don't imagine that those affirming the illegality of certain speech had this kind of speech in mind.
"We have great concerns about freedom of speech in this country and this kind of thing only makes it worse.
But James Maisano, a Republican of New Rochelle, said it was a typical "state of" kind of speech in that it sounded like a campaign speech but lacked substance.
