Number of Posts: 6
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Donald Trump Threatens Ted Cruz’s Wife, Eliciting Angry Retort
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 23.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | hashtags, misunderstanding, politics, Twitter
Summary | Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have started a public feud on Twitter over their spouses. Trump thinks that Cruz has used footage of Melania Trump modeling nude for GQ magazine in a commercial against Trump. Trump then threatened to reveal secrets about Heidi Cruz. It turned out the anti-Trump advertisement was not made or paid for by Cruz and Cruz shamed Trump via Twitter for threatening his wife with the hashtag #classless.
Image Description | Image of Ted Cruz speaking with his wife Heidi in the background.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
What Happened to Who?
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 8.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | abbreviations, grammar, language threat, politics, Twitter
Summary | More and more politicians have begun replacing the relative pronoun "who" with "that" in sentences like ''people that come with a legal visa and overstay''. Although some dictionaries say this is an acceptable for, the New York Times' style sheet does not condone using "that" instead of "who". It denies the mentioned persons their humanity. This trend is unsurprising considering that our communication is increasingly happening on platforms like Twitter that only allow 140 characters so that we invent loads of abbreviations like "LOL" and "TTYL".
Image Description | Artwork copying Edvard Munch's "The Scream" and a few high-profile Tweets with spelling mistakes.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), Twitter
President @realdonaldtrump
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 3.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, hashtags, politics, smartphone, Twitter
Summary | During his first 100 days, Trump tweeted a lot. His most used word in Twitter was "Great" (then: very, today, fake, news). His most common hashtag was "MAGA", the topic he most tweeted about was the media, and his favorite interjection is "Enojy!". Trump does not use a lot of emojis in his tweets, but his most common emoji is the American flag. Also, his most common hour for tweeting is 8am, and he mostly uses his iPhone.
Image Description | N/A
For Many Women, Trump's 'Locker Room Talk' Brings Back Memories of Abuse
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 11.10.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | hashtags, politics, Twitter
Summary | After a recording of Donald Trumps "locker room talk" leaked, a woman took Twitter and shared a personal story of sexual harassment and urged other women to do the same. Within a few days 27 million women responded and the hashtag #notokay became the marker for the thread. All of these singular examples demonstrated that they were not singular and that Donald Trump is wrapped up in and oblivious to the fact that his "harmless" locker room talk is perpetuating rape culture.
Image Description | Portraits of women who posted under the hashtah #notokay.
Image Tags | female(s)
How to Listen to Donald Trump Every Day for Years
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 21.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | grammar, language threat, politics, texting, Twitter
Summary | President Trump is widely criticized for his poor speaking abilities. His speaking style is more akin to regular talking whereas presidential speaking traditionally resembles the written language. This explains why Trump's medium of choice is Twitter or 'speeches' (too linguistically informal to be called an actual speech). Twitter, with its limitation on message length resembles texting, which as linguists have confirmed mimicks spoken language rather than formal writing.
Image Description | Donald Trump on a stage being photographed.
Image Tags | camera, male(s)
Trump attaks and dishoners English
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 8.2.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | language threat, politics, spelling
Summary | The new president of the United States, Donald Trump, seems to be either incompetent of using correct spelling or just not caring enough about correctness to do so. In this past year of his election campaign and since the beginning of his administration, the president and his press staff have been caught making many spelling errors in words such as "honer", "attak", "chocke", "unpresidented", "loose/lose", and so on.
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