Careful, the apparent dumbing down trend in presidential speeches may actually represent democratization of audience. The vocativ folks, who thought of doing Flesch-Kincaid testing of past (600 presidential speeches from the beginning and SOTU's since Woodrow Wilson), put Obama's most recent SOTU at 10th grade level:
Of course Jeb! is gonna be the Repo nominee. You know it, I know it, the Donald knows it. The only uncertainty is whether or not the Trump of Doom will go third-party on them?
I'm hoping he might, because he has a decent chance of getting more votes than Jeb!, which would be a yoooge ego massage.
Remember what the dormouse said.
That is great ^.^
You are talking about people who count in their numbers those who are still claiming victory for a war they lost 150 years ago.We know'd.
I fangurl every time she mentions the Wonkette, don't mind me. Wouldn't she be more likely to be OneJacketBunnyWithAFish?
Saskatchewan is in Ontario, right?
Lenny Kravitz?
But is it a CLASSY distance?
Congrats Dok! :)
Careful, the apparent dumbing down trend in presidential speeches may actually represent democratization of audience. The vocativ folks, who thought of doing Flesch-Kincaid testing of past (600 presidential speeches from the beginning and SOTU's since Woodrow Wilson), put Obama's most recent SOTU at 10th grade level:
http://www.vocativ.com/usa/...
Oh shit, Dok. Are we gonna lose you to the paparazzi?
Of course Jeb! is gonna be the Repo nominee. You know it, I know it, the Donald knows it. The only uncertainty is whether or not the Trump of Doom will go third-party on them?
I'm hoping he might, because he has a decent chance of getting more votes than Jeb!, which would be a yoooge ego massage.
27%, c'mon.
OOOk. ooook. Oook. Ooook. Ook.
Ook?
If someone put a gun to my head and said, "Vote for Trump* or die", the only thing I could say would be "Pull the trigger".
*Also applies to any of the other Republican candidates.
I'm 3/4 Norwegian, so Loki is okay with me.
Baby steps. It's really all we got.