Zachary Crockett analyzed 7 months of Trump’s tweets at Vox and his top three adjectives have been: Great (used 415 times) New (used 227 times) Big (used 148 times) The Trumpiest adjective of all is the word “HUGE!” which Trump would probably be inclined to write…
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YUGE revelation! The one word Trump hasn’t tweeted in the past 7 months is HUGE! Has public ridicule about it been getting to him?
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Sarcasm Marks? ¡¿We Don’t Do No Stinking Sarcasm!
We only have two official punctuation marks that express nuance, the exclamation point for emphasis and the question mark for questions. This makes writing flat and inexpressive and has spawned the use of emoticons 😉 Writing limits our ability to…
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Paul Krugman Needs Sarcasm Marks
Paul Krugman regularly uses sarcasm in his blog posts that falls a bit flat because he doesn’t use sarcasm punctuation. He is a good enough writer that he doesn’t use sarcasm (or dramatically modifies his wording) in his columns, but…
Posted in Personal (not econ)
Sarcasm In Chinese
When I lived in China, my sarcasm often fell flat. The Chinese simply don’t use it the same way as Americans do. They understand irony and satire, but a short, sarcastic comment was often taken literally. If we were discussing…
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Econobloggers Need Sarcasm Marks
Econobloggers frequently use sarcasm and need better punctuation to make the prose flow better. For example, Paul Krugman wrote about the debt crisis: “The new CBO numbers are out, and they scream “debt crisis? What debt crisis?”” This would be…
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