Trump doesn't speak in full, coherent sentences, because he's speaking a different language, one his followers understand but we don't.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
It's fascinating in a "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" sense. He begins a clause, and finishes it with nonsense filler words.
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But his followers have already used their bias to fill in meaning.
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"You look at what happened in Sweden last night, they took in large numbers, they're having problems they never though possible."
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This isn't a sentence. It's three sentence fragments strung together that only make sense if you fill in meaning.
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While I agree with you, parataxis is a valid way to structure texts, especially (meant to look like) spontaneous…
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Btw, we do similar stuff with new compound nouns all the time. Anyway, he didn't invent the style – okay, that’s trivial.
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Sure, nothing new about it except his almost exclusive use of it in the presidency
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Yep. As a certain style, it'd be okay—but he seems to be unable to switch according to context/topic/audience. Dangerous.
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