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Rather, his jokes live on when they can find a useful function, typically through the applicability of his absurd phrasal templates and discourse markers. 0.800

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , media

Simplified: Trump's jokes live on when they can find a useful function through phrasal templates and discourse markers.

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People don’t say “covfefe” anymore, even though that was a popular meme. 0.900

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , media

Simplified: People don't say 'covfefe' anymore even though it was a popular meme.

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Others have noted that he disproportionately appends extraneous language to his sentences — like “believe me” or “maybe ever” at the end of the trade deal meme. 0.800

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , politics

Simplified: Trump disproportionately appends extraneous language to his sentences.

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Strange-sounding sentences can generate more comments and spread further online. 0.800

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , media

Simplified: Strange-sounding sentences can generate more comments and spread further online.

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Researchers at the University of Chicago have found Mr. Trump to have a quantifiably unique syntactic style compared with those of other politicians. 0.900

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , politics

Simplified: University of Chicago researchers found Trump to have a quantifiably unique syntactic style.

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His word choice is less predictable to large language models, a type of A.I. that powers programs like ChatGPT. 0.800

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , technology

Simplified: Trump's word choice is less predictable to large language models.

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We know from studies on virality that emotional language is more likely to go viral, so perhaps Mr. Trump’s intense speech style is more susceptible to being spread online. 0.800

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , media

Simplified: Emotional language is more likely to go viral so Trump's intense speech style is more susceptible to being spread online.

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This didn’t happen with previous presidents in the online era. 0.800

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , politics , history

Simplified: Previous presidents in the online era did not have the same linguistic impact as Trump.

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Research has identified Mr. Trump as having a higher frequency of evaluative words like “huge,” “stupid” and “disaster,” and a more emotionally charged tone than the average politician. 0.900

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , politics

Simplified: Research identified Trump as having a higher frequency of evaluative words and a more emotionally charged tone than the average politician.

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Now any concept can be loaded into the template of “[superlative] X in/on the Y in the history of Z, maybe ever” — making it easier to apply to new scenarios and outlive the original meme. 0.900

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics

Simplified: Any concept can be loaded into the '[superlative] X in/on the Y in the history of Z maybe ever' template.

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In fact, Mr. Trump may have a greater impact on the English language than any president in the history of the United States, maybe ever. 0.700

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , politics , history

Simplified: Trump may have a greater impact on the English language than any US president.

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Since he helped popularize “sad!” as an interjection, I regularly hear people use it that way as well; something similar is in effect with “frankly,” “fake news” and the discourse marker “believe me”... 0.900

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , politics

Simplified: People regularly use 'sad!' 'frankly' 'fake news' and 'believe me' due to Trump's popularization.

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The Trumpisms that stay are well suited for virality and recombination through algorithmic media. 0.800

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , media

Simplified: Trumpisms that stay are well suited for virality and recombination through algorithmic media.

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Internet humor usually follows transient fads, but these phrases associated with the president seem to have found a more permanent home in the English language. 0.800

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , media

Simplified: Trumpisms have found a more permanent home in the English language than typical internet humor.

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Mr. Trump’s speech, evolving in the social media era, is overwhelmingly entering language through online jokes, but then sticking around in our actual conversations. 0.900

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , media

Simplified: Trump's speech enters language through online jokes then sticks around in actual conversations.

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Google Trends shows both expressions increasing in usage since the mid-2010s. 0.900

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , statistics

Simplified: Google Trends shows Trumpisms increasing in usage since the mid-2010s.

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Since they became popular as memes during his first presidential campaign, we have begun using them, first sardonically, and then out of habit. 0.900

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , politics , media

Simplified: People began using Trumpisms sardonically then out of habit after Trump's first presidential campaign.

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If you search for “many such cases” on X, you’ll see new posts of the phrase seemingly every minute, primarily applied to nonpolitical contexts like work anxiety or the real estate market. 0.800

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , social media

Simplified: Searching 'many such cases' on X shows new posts every minute applied to nonpolitical contexts.

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“Many such cases.” “Many people are saying this.”You may recognize these phrases as “Trumpisms” — linguistic coinages of President Trump — but they’ve also become ingrained in our collective vocabular... 0.900

👤 Adam Aleksic 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ linguistics , politics

Simplified: Trumpisms have become ingrained in our collective vocabulary.

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