Debate words

Lingua Franca 2016-09-27

Summary:

Geoff quoted Vox on Donald Trump's interruptions during last night's debate, and discussed the extraordinary childishness of some of those interruptions. I don't have much time this morning, so I'll just add a few words about words. Trump used 35% more wordforms than Clinton did — 8,866 to 6,580, by my trivial debate-analysis program's count […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=28434

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Gudgeon and gist » Language Log

Tags:

language and politics

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

09/27/2016, 12:34

Date published:

09/27/2016, 07:40