Input Junkie - February 11th, 2008
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08:39 am
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Bright Shiny Theory
http://www.groupnewsblog.net/2008/01/declaration-request-promiselead-lobby.html
Executives announce the future, managers make requests, workers make and fulfill promises. Obama talks like an executive, Edwards (this was written in January) talks like a manager, Clinton talks like a worker.
This is a new to me way of classifying things based on linguistics-- I've heard of declarative statements, but not as part of a system. It's amusing that Clinton is presented as having a subordinate style, considering the rightwing concern that she's too bossy.
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08:48 am
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Cars and wind
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) suecochran was doing a road trip yesterday in fairly high winds, and mentioned that it helps to open the windows (a clever idea I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere) and to go more slowly.
The latter seems intuitively plausible, but why would it work that way? Cars making less contact with the road (micro-bounces) as they go faster is my first guess. Anyone have a more solid theory?
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