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Lingua Franca 2016-05-20

Summary:

It is no news that the person I call the presumptuous Republican nominee for president likes to use exclamation points in his tweets. Take a look at a tranche of his Twitter feed:

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One might think this would be common punctuation on Twitter. One would be mistaken. Of the 50 most recent non-Trump tweets in my feed, only two contained exclamation points. (More commonly, a sort of humorous emphasis is added through ALL CAPS.) But for Trump, this is not only a trademark bit of Twitter punctuation; h...

Link:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2016/05/15/sad/

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Authors:

Ben Yagoda

Date tagged:

05/20/2016, 16:50

Date published:

05/15/2016, 21:00