Idiolect: Ginny Thomas and Ted Kaczynski

[New Haven]

FBI profilers were able to identify the Unibomber by the field craft known as idiolect or forensic linguistics. Could this FBI fieldcraft be used to identify that Clarence Thomas' written opinions were penned by Ginny? That he is, in fact, a total phony and that many of his decisions/votes are invalid.

Idiolect is an individual's unique use of language, including speech. This unique usage encompasses vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
An idiolect is the variety of language unique to an individual. This differs from a dialect, a common set of linguistic characteristics shared among a group of people.

​With Ginny Thomas' deep immersion in right wing circles her use of a certain idiolect emerges.

Do you know of any expert profilers that could help us with this?

[Enter stage left]

1. Interesting concept...

[RockRaven]

2. Every justice has clerks who write drafts of opinions for them. The idea that someone else

writing an opinion that has a justice's name on it makes the votes or the opinions invalid is just fantasy.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Ginny could have hired her husband's law clerks?

Not hard to imagine that possibility.

[TheBlackAdder]

3. There is a UK firm that does it for college papers with a near 100% accuracy.

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I can't recall its name, but it made the news about 10 years ago.

They can tell who authored what college papers based off of style and voice.

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