This is a visual aid to gauge the frequency of words in the complete set of the two candidate’s speeches. Can you match the world cloud to the candidate?
Wordle technology would fill, at minimum, a chapter in a postmodern linguist grad student’s dissertation.
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An inexorable law of perception prevents us from seeing in the ape, particularly in the chimpanzee, an animal like other animals, and makes us see in its face the human physiognomy. From this point of view, measured by human standards, the chimpanzee of course appears as something horrible, a diabolical caricature of ourselves. …he is irresistibly funny and at the same time as common, as vulgar as no other animal but a debased human being can ever be. — Konrad Lorenz
To see the answers go over to http://www.speechwars.com/wordcloud.php
It took me a while to figure it out. Change, hope, Iraq, and war were the giveaways for me.
Wordle technology would fill, at minimum, a chapter in a postmodern linguist grad student’s dissertation.