Feed on
Posts
Comments

A people-centric speech?

In continuation of Arun’s fantastic post, here is the Wordle graphic of the text of Obama’s speech in Cairo.

obama-speech


For those of you unfamiliar with Wordle, what it does is basically rank a written piece in terms of the frequencies that various words appear in it, and put these frequencies into perspective by co-relating them to the size of those words. Basically, words that appear most seem largest.

Notice how ‘world’ appears more frequently than ‘country’;  ‘America’ is by far the only noticeable nation; ‘Egypt’ is virtually non-existant on the graphic, replaced by ‘Muslim/s’ – and most importantly, the word ‘must’ appears far, far more often than any other form of present or past tense.

Facebook comments:

Powered by Facebook Comments

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Leave a Reply