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eppur_se_muova

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31. "Beautiful." "Big-league." "Perfect." "Bad people" Good God, his language skills are so limited.

Thu Apr 10, 2025, 03:59 PM

Apr 2025

I know some experts -- well, English majors, at least -- have analyzed Turnip's speech patterns and concluded he speaks and writes at about a fifth-grade level (apparently fifth graders have declined since my childhood). Has anyone done an analysis of his vocabulary, to show how much he relies on the same words and phrases over and over and has command of only a very small subset of the English language ? What's the estimated size of his vocabulary ? If anyone ever does a word cloud of his collected speeches (*as given*, not after cleanup, aka "Millerizing&quot I bet it would be the tightest, most closely grouped word cloud ever.

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