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Michael Prescott's avatar

The section of this CNN story labeled "Uncommon phrases …" offers a new example of identifying a writer by verbal tics. In this case, CNN identified NC gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson as a frequent poster in an online forum, in part because of unusual expressions used by both.

It seems unlikely that any database search for North-Shakespeare parallels will turn up "frog's fat ass" or "gag a maggot," though.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html

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Dennis McCarthy's avatar

Right! Brilliant! It just shows you how powerful that evidence is. And while North/Shakespeare don't share "gag a maggot," they do share "milch kine to the pail," "that never knew what truth meant," "word that might be to the prejudice of," "God forbid I should be so bold to," etc. that occur in only two places in the searchable history of the English language ...

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Eric Clark Pollard's avatar

Ted Kaczynski is the Unabomber.

That's iambic pentameter. :-o

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Michael Prescott's avatar

There was a mad bomber named Teddy

Whose hands were uncommonly steady.

When you make a bomb,

You need great aplomb,

Or it goes off before you are ready.

That's a limerick. :-)

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Dennis McCarthy's avatar

Important Question:

Who is the Unabomer?

It’s Ted Kaczynski

[Haiku]

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Robert Beatty's avatar

At 2:13 the close captioning says Norse, instead of North

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Dennis McCarthy's avatar

I'm slurring once again! (Unfortunately, I don't think I'm able to edit the closed-captioning, which is a voice recognition program. I'm just going to have speak more clearly in the future.)

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