Linguists dissected over 100,000 words from their speeches. By Cara Giaimo And Sarah Laskow JULY 21, 2016 The Republican National Convention is entering its final night, but people can’t stop talking about the words in Melania Trump’s Monday evening speech—because she borrowed a significant amount of them from a 2008 speech by Michelle Obama. After journalist Jarret Hill noticed the lifted material and the story spread, the Trump campaign claimed that Melania Trump had simply been using “common words,” and “phrases [Americans] have heard before.” There has been plenty of…
We Uncovered the Hidden Patterns in Clinton and Trump’s Most Common Phrases
