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To: GretchenEE
Just out of curiosity I counted the words in your post and applied the same arithmatic. Your post had roughly (emphasis on roughly) 324 words. Dates counting as one word, no numbers counted as words, etc. You use the word "I" four times (not counting the references to Clintoons use of the word), "My" once and "Me" once. Since 324 is just less than 1/23 of Clintoons number, I multiplied by 22.75. It appears that if your post had been around 7,300 words, you would have used "I" 91 times. Not that this means anything.
56 posted on 11/12/2001 12:46:32 PM PST by GallopingGhost
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To: GallopingGhost
Yes, it does mean something, and to tell you the truth, there was a great consciousness while writing the post that that would be a likely target of critique.

Notice how the indirect approach was used in the above sentence so as not to call attention to any specific writer, a gallingly silly practice because the reason the post was written was to call attention to a certain person's personal observations of the use of the personal pronoun by Clinton and Bush. Please note that this was done at the specific request of another FReeper. It is not something that would have been done as a separate post on the writer's own without being asked. Since the post called for the personal observations of the writer, one might be more forgiving about the issue ... especially considering the reason for each "speech": Clinton addressing his alma mater on the terrorist attacks and turning it into a Hallelujah chorus to himself; Bush speaking to the United Nations on terrorism and the American response; and a certain FReeper's personal observations, analysis, and conclusions about both.

57 posted on 11/12/2001 4:46:49 PM PST by GretchenEE
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