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Candidates’ ‘word salads’ often lose the point: Linguistics professor | On Balance
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4:33Now PlayingMark Liberman, a professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, agrees that the random verbiage commonly known as “word salads” is different than outright lying or filibustering. He tells “On Balance” that both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump often take circuitous routes to make their points.
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