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- dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -2/+401776 - "Assembly"
1807-1808 - "Harbor"
1813-1814 - "Savage & Militia"
Through the end of the 1800's - "Treaty", "Appropriation", and "Revenue" are most popular.
As the years passed on it seems that "Labor", "Debt", "Currency" became more popular.
1931-1937 - "Unemployment" seemed to be one of the most used.
Bush Sr.'s favorite word? "Deficit".
Bush Jr's? ... "Terrorist"
This is a really great, and extremely interesting thing that was put together. Thank you for sharing it! - branto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24I'm just surprised there isn't a 3-way tie between errr, ummmmm, and uhhhhhhh
- weaksnyc, on 08/14/2009, -1/+21where's "nucular"
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21@xGORDOx
You're confusing administration policy with public speeches.
While Clinton didn't say much about terrorism in public, he was taking action to do something about it. He is, after all, the only president to date who actually tried to kill Osama Bin Laden. His administration is also the one who gave Bush's people the warning that an attack was "imminent."
Bush was the one who chose to ignore everything his predecessor had to say on the topic.
Bush as since latched onto the word "terrorist" to justify everything he does that erodes the constitution and civil liberties. - pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15This is possibly the best means to show the hot topics of the last 200 years in the United States ever conceived.
Brilliant work.
All you need to do is select a year and glance at the cloud to know what the most politically prominent issues of the time were. I love it. - grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Interesting... after 2003 it's:
TERRORIST, TERRORIST, TERRORIST!!
AHHH... the sky is falling the sky is fallin!! - grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14...and the reason why we have a problem NOW is because WE attacked Iraq!
- academician, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it." --John Adams
http://www.britannica.com/presidents/article-9116853 - stickfu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Any way to do that with the bible?? maybe broken up into books or chapters?
- rivercityjessie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Where's all the cut and runs or the stay the courses?
It is interesting to go back to the earlier presidents and compare though. - wordsofwisedumb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Another interesting thing is how during most times of violence or periods of war the word treaty is used a lot. It doesn't show up once during Bush's years. It's hard to call a treaty when you are the aggressor.
- davestar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8surprisingly, someone missed the sarcasm
- kdbarto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Precisely. There is no logic to the mind of the Bush.
- alexp2ad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9They're Web2.0alicious
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@texasmojo
Don't get too excited there pardner.
The word "Breast" was used in an emotional context to indicate strong feelings on a topic.
A phrase such as "The desire for liberty burned deep within every man's breast," would be used to refer to the attendees of a rally supporting the speaker's plan for "liberty."
The closest it came to being an anatomical reference was the fact that ones heart, a symbol for strong emotion, was located in the chest cavity, which was often referred to as a man's "Breast." - mzwaterski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@ xGordox - dugg down for not telling the truth. See 95-99. About the same amount as Bush until 2003. However, I'm a little skeptical about the drastic change in size between the 2002 state of the union and the 2003.
- PDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8WAR is not listed anywhere.
Is that because the small words filter is picking it up and kicking it out? That would be a shame, and something I hope the programmer would change. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Why oh why didnt he go the extra inch and put all the speeches together in one giant tag cloud?! I dont give a crap about the most used word in one random speech by warren harding!
- texasmojo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Why is "breasts" in 1776-01-15?
I think our forefathers were having a lot more fun than the history books let on. I knew that the Madisons were swingers. That Dolly was a smokin' hot. - sokz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9There were a lot of rightwing (neocon) conspiracies, it's been shown that many plots went down in order to dirty his name.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Oh snap! An obscure economics joke that was relevant 30 years ago!
- KSettes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I really enjoyed finding out that in 1911-1912 wool was such a hot topic!
- dextroz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12You mean 'unsurprisingly'.
- kylesellers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7And Jimmy Carter's top word: Inflation.
So, we know now that he DID do something about the runaway inflation. He talked about it. - chime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Sorry. That's a typo on my part. I had to manually type a lot of the dates for these speeches. I'll fix it as soon as I get home tonight. It shouldn't change the other tags however. I've already got more than a few emails about it.
- dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Im sure it could be done. There's got to be a text file of the bible online SOMEWHERE that could be used in the same interface that this is.
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@TheOther1
Many dictators are popular in the USA until they piss off the government.
For example:
http://www.wndu.com/news/032003/news_19147.php
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/26/iraq/main546287.shtml - ostermei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The real question is why, in Thomas Jefferson's 1785-10-15: "American Education for American Youth," does the word "whores" show up?
- vvvv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It could be that some kind of software was used to filter out proper nouns by checking for capitalized words that don't appear at the beginning of sentences, and the "bin" in "Osama bin Laden" slipped by the filter.
Either that or Bush likes talking about containers. - sokz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Can anyone tell me why Bush Sr. had a lot of words like "breeze, blowing, bless, love"?
- danielrh9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is actually a very, very interesting page from a rhetorical criticism perspective. This is a good application of what is referred to as "cluster criticism", as developed in part by Kennith Burke.
- decruncher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5we're going to mars, bitches
- black Bush - texasmojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It was a joke in any case. but it does say "breasts". Plural. Not "breast". I understand the distinction.
- vvvv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"The real question is why, in Thomas Jefferson's 1785-10-15: "American Education for American Youth," does the word "whores" show up?"
The article does link to the text of the speeches. I am aware that most Digg kiddies have third-grade language skills, but if you're an exception, you could try reading through the speech yourself. Here's the relevant bit from that Jefferson piece. It's pretty funny:
"Let us view the disadvantages of sending a youth to Europe. To enumerate them all would require a volume. I will select a few. If he goes to England, he learns drinking, horse racing, and boxing. These are the peculiarities of English education. The following circumstances are common to education in that and the other countries of Europe (...) He acquires a fondness for European luxury and dissipation, and a contempt for the simplicity of his own country; (...) a spirit for female intrigue, destructive of his own and others' happiness, or a passion for whores, destructive of his health; and, in both cases, learns to consider fidelity to the marriage bed as an ungentlemanly practice and inconsistent with happiness."
Jefferson of all people going on about marital fidelity. LOL - cogit0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Perhaps also of note, George Washington was fond of using "intercourse" in his 1792 SotU... as do many of the other early founding fathers.
I know its not THAT version, but interesting what words have fallen out of disuse in relation to their original meaning. - dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8@grooviekenn
...and the reason WE attacked Iraq (who had nothing to do with 9/11 ) is because WE couldn't find Osama! - halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@stickfu
@dustedbunny
Your best bet would be to take a look at "Strong's Exhaustive Concordance"
A Concordance is basically an index, listing where various words can be found in the Bible. Strong's is old enough that it may be online somewhere. The copy I have also cross references the Hebrew roots for various words.
Comparing the counts of various Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic words to the comparable English words might shed some interesting light upon the biases of various translators... - dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8The word was never used because we didn't have as much of a problem as we do now.
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's all on Project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org - ColMustard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"Terrorist" has been my favorite drinking game throughout the Bush administration. Give it a try during the next State of the Union address.
- Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Apparently Grover Cleveland liked to say "intercourse."
- julieomg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3neat. i did the same thing 3 and a half years ago for a college "new media art" project. (poorly put together website with half of the files missing here: juliewager.com/amsus) we approached it a little differently but it is very interesting to see someone else do it on a much broader scale with more current web technology. our results don't match up at all because he used various documents and speeches, while we only used the final state of the union address from each term. anyway, very cool and interesting.
- dolemite5005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Cool site, but the slider needs to stand out more. Everyone it sent it to kept asking "where's the slider?"
- polyGone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That is his pet name...
- Rxbrent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How did "hose" get to be top word used by FDR in 1940? That's hilarious. I would like to hear that speech. I didn't feel like actually reading it.
1940-12-17: Proposal for Lend-Lease - kenoir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Holy crap, that's awesome. Watch out for 'debt' and 'deficit'.
- BlazeMiskulin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.biblegateway.com/
Pick your version and let loose the text-cloud bot. :) - ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I liked watching the word "resolve" under Bush get bigger and bigger and then... *poof* it was gone. He lost his resolve.
- PDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks like it's been corrected to include WAR as a short word.
- santacruzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting that "terrorist" is only the most important word for GWB starting with the 200*3* State of the Union address. In 2002, apparently, there were more pressing matters. It's only when he needed to use terrorism to justify war in Iraq that the word got popular. Heck, even when he declared war on terrorism on 9/20/01, "terrorist" wasn't that common of a word. It's only with the 2003 SotU that it becomes the most important word.
Nice representation of the language from presidential addresses! -
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