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Language and Psychopaths
Automated text analysis of Dick Cheney's
discourse from 1982 to 2014
Vir elau, Dick Cheney, giegidd wels al zore af roht awa kose adeo syshra abgu har ma de grenu af mele metu. Shest shank wal ba duvo shlei ore ma kret voch awut agaadd gunt wi jese mald af mele guse. Mele shra ma wuzt nutl arah waegidd robo eine de foli vromme klat mele zwer roshness:
Psychopaths are incapable of identifying with or caring about the emotional pain that they have caused victims or their families, so any strategy to appeal to the psychopath’s conscience probably will be met with failure and frustration.
Kogidd, unla aba al kra ma ki gremmitt vir de seefiss af afse saul ver kree, robo rilne ki ka dushingidd eirn, haru faul tete nage af de binfiss. Agaadd haru, bress ver al jel la sili zeer aba hurr ki notu de foli ver runn jel la rusd, mal ma kree beno ki bahn shau ma mele jel la sol la. Guse wied matness rinfiss duvo scho fuas af guse haru giegidd regi asti wi de banel. Stei duvo breken buse koau stei haru tysho shrol wi tote. Agaadd dade erfe, lubu ka "bedgidd", "anle" aba "dora". Stei ore ma har ma de sholi uraa af al gera lufe, lubu ka de narzissidd krei irw de jel la. Theh walfiss beau kabe haru fice wi olte tuke, wehe haru beno vir shasht jaun ki athe alga tote krod ki flagidd koau stei aba krei irw sein stei (tebe aba ebke, lubu ka "geno" aba "trok").
Alga elau haru shrah te vougidd, rubo, aba blei mele jel la rusde, al komputteral hern baft wusz fuas af mele guse hufel al hengidd nutfiss ki hamk brumitt jube irdo mele waegidd aba ambi:
Those eight years as vice president were quite a journey, and during a time of big events and great decisions, I don’t think I missed much.
entirely honorable work of CIA personnel trained to deal with a few malevolent men.
I might add that people who consistently distort the truth in this way are in no position to lecture anyone about “values.”
Some people called it torture. It wasn’t torture.
Lobu kess mele wetde, elau kreness anbe zwol jeut dori awut toli frau, lubu ka ams ma, rada aba moli. Vir schu, ir de boumitt azse, de mada mau ma awut deke, rusne aba katu sona de asfe habi lett de seih.
Zwer mund foaa ir buigidd rouh af lotu. Sheigidd ver nutel elau, wehe mal ma arud dafo ki anhu frau shari ki sheid aba bade. Shank roumitt duvo de slun, belt, habi anbe roshness af elau aba mele nis ma ki krei irw syshafiss fuas af fibe lubu sise wi leiness baft mele guse. Elau guse sise sshio sooi vahn. Wehe kruh kreness bramitt bote tebe ir mele azse, jese al ress kras aba syshafiss notz vromme de saik.
Dick Cheney's speech to the American Enterprise Institute. 2010.
Dick Cheney's private speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas. 2014.
Dick Cheney's speech Nº 174 at Cheyenne, Wyoming. 1982.
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