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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 03:21 PM Oct 2015

Bernie supporters have better grammar.

No need to 'bad grammar bomb' Trump, his supporters have that covered.

New Analysis Ranks Presidential Candidates by Their Supporters’ Grammar

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Grammarly went to each candidate’s Facebook page, taking comments that were at least 15 words long and expressed either positive or neutral feelings about the candidate. Then, researchers randomly selected at least 180 of those comments to analyze for each candidate.

The analysis — intended by Grammarly to be “a lighthearted look at how well the 2016 presidential candidates’ supporters write when they’re debating online” — found that, for every 100 words written, an average Democratic candidate supporter made 4.2 mistakes, while an average Republican candidate backer made 8.7 errors. It also asserted that Democratic supporters have larger vocabularies, using 300 unique words for every 1,000 words they use, compared to Republicans who only use only 245 unique words for every 1,000.

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Sanders 3.7 mistakes per 100 words.
Trump 12.6 mistakes per 100 words.


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Bernie supporters have better grammar. (Original Post) L. Coyote Oct 2015 OP
Duz we? merrily Oct 2015 #1
We talk gooder! (nt) jeff47 Oct 2015 #2
I talked sew bad that Plucketeer Oct 2015 #4
Many Repubs I know have a tendency to use the same 4 letter dae Oct 2015 #3
guns? guns? and guns? n/t ejbr Oct 2015 #6
I only have this one word—Duh. Enthusiast Oct 2015 #5
You no that's d'oh, right? L. Coyote Oct 2015 #9
Well..... Enthusiast Oct 2015 #10
What you omitted was that Lincoln Chafee's supporters topped them all. Jim Lane Oct 2015 #7
I must have missed those. nt Live and Learn Oct 2015 #8
And to pin a tale on that elephant... McCarthy Enters Rehab After Admitting Struggles with Nouns L. Coyote Oct 2015 #11
 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
4. I talked sew bad that
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 06:05 PM
Oct 2015

I got booted from the HRC group. One of them stuck their thumbs in their ears and went LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-we can't here you!

dae

(3,396 posts)
3. Many Repubs I know have a tendency to use the same 4 letter
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 05:46 PM
Oct 2015

words as adjectives, adverbs, and subject in the same sentence.

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
7. What you omitted was that Lincoln Chafee's supporters topped them all.
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 11:07 PM
Oct 2015

I'm getting really sick of all the Chafee-hating around here.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
11. And to pin a tale on that elephant... McCarthy Enters Rehab After Admitting Struggles with Nouns
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 08:30 PM
Oct 2015
Kevin McCarthy Enters Rehab After Admitting Struggles with Nouns, Verbs

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has entered rehab to deal with his “struggles with nouns and verbs,” an aide to the congressman has confirmed.

According to the aide, McCarthy abruptly dropped out of the race for Speaker of the House because his difficulties with those two parts of speech had “spiralled out of control.”

“There was an intervention, in which people who care about the congressman sat him down and showed him video of himself talking,” the aide said .....
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