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To: LS

Only a shallow thinking idiot counts the number of times a word is said, without taking into context the use of the word, and proclaims a conclusion.


17 posted on 09/10/2015 8:07:24 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: CodeToad; LS

Are you suggesting that LS is a shallow thinking idiot?


19 posted on 09/10/2015 8:20:26 AM PDT by tatown
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To: CodeToad
Well, in fact, that is exactly how word analysis is done in any communications department I'm aware of.

Of course context is important. Which is why I qualified things the way I did, unless a "shallow thinking idiot" didn't read the qualifiers.

But the moment you contextualize anything you bring in value judgments that people can challenge, such as "Why did you exclude the time Trump talked about Oreos?" So if you're going to do any kind of quantitative study, you have to count everything. It does work out . . . for us shallow thinking idiots.

21 posted on 09/10/2015 8:32:29 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: CodeToad
I thought that LS was quite clear about the context.

Why the insulting tone?!

22 posted on 09/10/2015 8:32:59 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: CodeToad

who pissed in your cornflakes?


23 posted on 09/10/2015 8:41:35 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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