[Magdalen] Paris Accord /Fwd: I belong

Marion Thompson marionwhitevale at gmail.com
Fri Jun 2 18:30:05 UTC 2017


A few years back I heard an interesting program about diminishing 
vocabulary complexity as an early indicator of Alzheimer's.  In 
particular, in 2004 scientists had studied that decline within the text 
of Iris Murdoch's last novel.  Google it!

Marion, a pilgrim


On 6/2/2017 2:13 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
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> In a message dated 6/2/2017 1:57:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> marionwhitevale at gmail.com writes:
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> Trump  has only achieved a very primitive level of
> English!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> There was a study a couple of weeks ago that purported to show
> that Trump has had an abnormal decline in vocabulary in recent
> years.  They had video clips that showed him speaking in what  could
> be considered a more fluent manner.  I hasten to add that this was  not
> a major study that should be believed as gospel. The study did  ascribe
> this phenomenon to an "abnormal aging process."
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> There are numerous entries when one googles,  "Trump/language/vocabulary.
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> David S.
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