Why words matter in political fights
Our country is in crisis, a crisis of vocabulary. Words matter. They have consequences, and yet words get thrown around carelessly in the middle of political fights.
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5 results for "Vocabulary level"
Opinion · 117th Congress
Rage, rage against the octogenarian steel cage match
Trump’s diminished vocabulary, tendency to meander, sometimes incoherent remarks, light office schedule and struggles to process information led critics to conclude that he was in decline.”
Factbase · 116th Congress
Not “Stable Genius” Again, Or Please Stop Making Us Run This Analysis
The Headline Donald Trump’s grade level, on Day 986 of his Presidency, declined slightly from the first two analyses, dropping from a grade level of
White House · 116th Congress
Trump’s nicknames ranked, as he locks in on 2020 foes and foils
(Trump is pouncing on Warren making misleading and false statements about her level of Native American ancestry.)
Factbase · 115th Congress
“Stable Genius” – Let’s Go to the Data
Supercalifragilisticvocabularydocious However, the ability to measure the complexity of vocabulary, the diversity and its comprehension level is something we do all the time here in the Fact Cave