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    Trump First in the Polls, But His Supporters Are Last in Grammar

    Trump First in the Polls, But His Supporters Are Last in Grammar
    Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy
    October 7, 2015

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    Forget you are what you eat. When it comes to election season, you are what you speak.

    Or type, rather.

    A new study by the proofreading app Grammarly shows that grammar skills vary widely among the supporters of the different presidential candidates.

    The study involved scanning comments made by supporters on the 19 presidential candidates’ Facebook pages. “Whoever your pick for POTUS, one thing’s certain — political topics inspire passionate discussions,” says a Grammarly blog post. “With a light heart and heavy-hitting algorithms, we visited each candidate’s official Facebook page and looked at the comments there to see how well their supporters handle themselves when they communicate their ideas in writing.”

    The findings: While Republican supporters generally make more mistakes and use fewer words than Democratic supporters, one specific group needs the most help in the grammar department: Trump supporters. They made 12.6 mistakes for every 100 words written.

    The study also found that supporters of Republican presidential candidates made more than twice as many errors, on average — at 8.7 mistakes for every 100 words — than supporters of Democrats, who made 4.2 mistakes for every 100 words.

    Among the Democratic candidates: While Lincoln Chaffee may be trailing in the polls, his supporters made the fewest mistakes of any candidate, Democrat or Republican, with only 3.1 mistakes per 100 words.

    Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s supporters might want to get out their old copies of Strunk & White’s Elements of Style, as they made the most mistakes (6.3 per 100 words) of any of the Democratic candidates’ supporters.

    Carly Fiorina may have some trouble with the truth, but her supporters seem to have a better grasp of the English language than those of her competition. Fiorina’s Facebook commenters had the fewest number of errors in the GOP field, with 6.3 mistakes for every 100 words. (Interesting to note: Both Clinton and Fiorina supporters had the same error rate.)

    While Trump supporters may want to Make American Great Again, they might want to make their grammar skills great again, too. Errors made by Trump supporters and commenters included sentence fragments…

    “The only presidential candidate that’s not owned by a donor and the only one that speaks the TRUTH, the man of honor that works for America without the need for a paycheck, Donald J. Trump.”

    … As well as capitalization problems, unorthodox use of ellipsis, extra exclamation points, incorrect use of “of”…

    “Donald trump president of 2016… To the White House he goes!!!! Make America great again!!!”

    … And egregious misuse of the beloved em dash by the candidate himself:

    “Crooked @club4growth has given up advertising in Iowa on me—remember they wanted my million dollars—I said no—total frauds!”

    While psychologists have yet to reach a unanimous agreement regarding how the language acquisition process works, many believe that language is developed primary through imitation. This may suggest that the various candidates’ supporters (though already verbal and of speaking age) could be mimicking and replicating one another’s linguistic tics.

    As one 1989 study on language acquisition stated: “In most behavioral domains, competence is expected to increase over development, whether gradually or in stages.”

    Alas, it seems that for some political supporters, mastery of the English language has peaked at a sub-par level.

    Here’s the full infographic from Grammarly:

    Click on link to see the "infographic"

    https://www.yahoo.com/health/trump-f...154118473.html
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    Well, this is just hilarious!

    The reason Trump Supporters might show more mistakes in their Facebook comments is because of who they are! First of all, they're real people, not paid campaign staff posting comments to up the social media responses, something the pundits are watching and counting to rate candidates these days. Trump has almost no staff at his campaign headquarters and very little staff out in the field, and they are far, far too busy doing real work for the campaign to sit around and create or edit Facebook comments.

    Second of all, Trump Supporters are busy, hard-working multi-tasking people who want to fix our country and they slide time in to read and make a comment, but probably don't have the time to edit and edit to correct any mistakes, they type, hit the button, move on to going to work, changing the baby, paying a bill, fixing supper, getting the kids to bed, doing the laundry and getting to bed themselves so they can get up early and go to work again!

    Third of all, Trump Supporters far outweigh the number of supporters of other individual candidates. So, it wouldn't take much of an "algorithm" to pick the worst of the worst 180 on Trump's Facebook page, and select the 180 best of the best on everyone else's, and end up with the result sought by whoever ordered and paid for Grammerly's "study".

    Fourth of all, Trump Supporters may not use the Grammerly feature on Facebook, whereas others do.

    Fifth of all, a lot of Trump Supporters may not comment on Facebook which changes the demographic substantially, because many of us are BOYCOTTING FACEBOOK, because Facebook's owner, Mark Zuckerberg, supports illegal immigration and wants to hire more foreign visa workers instead of American Workers.
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    wtg judy

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    This is so pathetic. Instead of debating issues and engaging in a logical, substantive exchange of ideas, we have English language monitors looking at punctuation and for sentence fragments. Give me a break (“you” is understood, this is a complete sentence).

    Have any liberals checked the front page of the New York times for spelling and punctuation errors? You will find many errors, often. This is the arrogance of the self-appointed liberal intellectuals, the university snobs who can take really stupid ideas and make them appear to be reasonable. After all, they are so brilliant they can not possibly be wrong about anything. Therefore, if you disagree with them, you must be stupid and thus wrong.

    See how arrogance and narcissism works (complete sentence “you”is understood) ?
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