“You can learn an awful lot about people, without comparing it to anything, because actually you're comparing it to all the other documents you and all other linguists have studied since the beginning of time.” hofstra.edu/academics/coll…
“When I actually sit down with these documents, what I look for are indicators of lexical features; what are the words individually being used, are they unusual, are they distinctive, are they rare? Are they unique?”—Fitzgerald jamesrfitzgerald.com
Listen up. “In trying to identify the author of an anonymous writing, MISDIRECTION IS a COMMON tactic. In the New York Times op-ed, the word ‘lodestar’ was seized upon by several armchair forensic linguists. It's a word used often by @VP Mike Pence.”
