Trump question [average number of words used by Trump vs. average Americans]

Randall Munroe [of XKCD fame] has played with some adjacent notions to great effect in his book “Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words”. Here’s a website that lets you try it yourself: The Up-Goer Five Text Editor

Sheessss. That’s hard. I couldn’t begin to explain my job for instance. It wouldn’t even take the word ‘map’

If he can get 75 million votes using 1,975 words, think how many more he’d get if he used just 1,500?

Remember, politicians of any ilk have “stump” speeches. Same talking points, same bumper sticker phrasing, same slurs; delivered multiple times a day. Some tailoring (pandering) for the local audience but a consistent message (the big lie). It’s got to be exhausting, even worse for the handlers who listen to the same drivel over and over and over…

Wasn’t that basically P.T. Barnum’s quote too? But using less fancy wordiage, bigly

Not quite, but I’m sure it’s idea NASCAR would like.

Check out his “Thing Explainer” book - the man is a genius, of which we need more, to bring the average back up to average…

I took a stab at ‘map’ and got it to accept ‘world edge drawing’

They’ve been racing trucks since 1995.

Here is a five-year-old NYT opinion piece by the linguist John McWhorter (for some reason I can’t figure out how to create a gift link) and a six-year-old analysis by Stat News about the changes in his speech patterns.

I printed that out at work! We have a great plotter. (I did not make it 'full size :wink:)

So some pickups are racially motivated.

Shows how much I care…