Can’t decipher Trump-speak? Meet Margaret, the computer bot


Frischling runs the numbers and counts all of Trump’s Twitter misspellings. — Los Angles Times/TNS

WASHINGTON: Bill Frischling’s moment of inspiration came three years ago, when Margaret, his artificial intelligence bot, tried to transcribe a 127-word section of a speech by US President Donald Trump.

The passage, ostensibly commemorating a World War II battle, careened wildly. Trump shifted verb tenses and subjects without warning. Syntax was tortured and conjunctions collided. He added sub-clause to sub-clause, parenthetical to parenthetical, preposition to preposition.

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