Newt Gingrich's Unintentional Burn Of Donald Trump Is Priceless

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Former GOP Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich suggested Wednesday that Donald Trump communicates better than Ron DeSantis ― but it didn’t come off as complimentary to many. (Watch the video below.)

“One of Trump’s great advantages is he talks at a level where third, fourth and fifth grade educations can say, ‘Oh yeah, I get that. I understand it.’” Gingrich told host Laura Ingraham on her Fox News show.

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The comment drew mockery from online critics. “The fact that [Trump] speaks to the children says everything you need to know about the educational level the Right is shooting for,” one person on Twitter wrote. “I don’t see where that’s good for somebody that’s running a country. SMH,” another commented.

Gingrich was assessing the strengths of the two leading Republican candidates for president after DeSantis officially entered the race on Wednesday. He praised the Florida governor’s intelligence but questioned his communication skills after Ingraham played a clip of DeSantis making a convoluted comparison involving financial institutions and elections.

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1. Language levels over the years

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/feb/12/state-of-the-union-reading-level

The state of our union is … dumber:
How the linguistic standard of the presidential address has declined

Using the Flesch-Kincaid readability test the Guardian has tracked the reading level of every State of the Union

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http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/10/13/6969089/presidential-speeches-flesch-kincaid

Today's presidential speeches use simpler language than past ones

Over at Vocativ, EJ Fox, Mike Spies, and Matan Gilat have a fascinating analysis of how the type of language used in presidential speeches has changed over time. They collected the text of over 600 presidential speeches starting with George Washington, and used the Flesch-Kincaid readability test to rate the complexity of each speech's language. Each speech got a grade level rating — a rating of "four" is a speech a fourth-grader could understand, while "15" would be a college graduate, and "21" a PhD student. Overall, the authors found a marked decline in complexity over the past two centuries: