Posted on 08/14/2015 10:20:26 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Donald Trump isn’t a simpleton, he just talks like one. If you were to market Donald Trump’s vocabulary as a toy, it would resemble a small box of Lincoln Logs. Trump resists multisyllabic words and complex, writerly sentence constructions when speaking extemporaneously in a debate, at a news conference or in an interview. He prefers to link short, blocky words into other short, blocky words to create short, blocky sentences that he then stacks into short, blocky paragraphs.
The end result of Trump’s word choice is less the stripped-down prose style of Ernest Hemingway than it is a spontaneous reinvention of Ogden’s Basic English, the pared-down lexicon of 850 words selected by early 20th century linguist/philosopher C.K. Ogden as the bedrock of a new world language. In the August 6th Republican candidates debate, Trump answered the moderators’ questions with linguistic austerity. Run through the Flesch-Kincaid grade-level test, his text of responses score at the 4th-grade reading level. For Trump, that’s actually pretty advanced. All the other candidates rated higher, with Ted Cruz earning 9th-grade status. Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and Scott Walker scored at the 8th-grade level. John Kasich, the next-lowest after Trump, got a 5th-grade score.
Trump’s low grade at the debates wasn’t a fluke. His comments from an August 11 news conference in Michigan earned only a 3rd-grade score.
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This author is a complete simpleton. Full of malarkey. Sport, DT may not be speaking to you, but he does have the ‘people’ who are willing to co so. It would be wise for you to bite your tongue,and view a few clips of your old buddy “o” just to see how far you’ve fallen. If THIS is the best you can do- it is also suggested you take a long vacay to Austria and learn how to speak ‘Austrian’ Chances are you will find some acquaintances there attending the same class.
LOL it’s become apparent some are p-ing their trousers so much soon these ‘follks’ will be removing their shoes to pour out the liquid
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