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.

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.

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