Nobody has ever accused former President Donald Trump with being a Reagan-style “great communicator,” but when it comes to word usage, he’s at least better than his gaffe-prone successor, President Joe Biden.
In a new study of vocabulary, or “lexical,” diversity, the president known for peppering speeches with “best” and “biggest” edged out Biden, who uses fewer diverse words and rarely speaks in public.
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But, then, neither are known for their speeches the way former President Reagan -- the Great Communicator himself -- was.
“Trump’s speeches have a 26.8% lexical diversity, while Biden’s has a 25.8% — a below-average uniqueness among other leaders,” said a communications executive promoting the study “WordFinder.”
The group provided Secrets with the latest report on the “lexical diversity” of world leaders. That has former Vice President Al Gore on top of U.S. political leaders, proving that word diversity does not mean great communicating.
Many consider Gore a boring speaker, but his word diversity is great, at 42%. And no surprise for the global warming advocate, he uses the word “fossil” the most.
Both Trump and Biden use the word “people” most, though one of Biden’s favorite is “president,” as if he has to remind us often that he is in charge.
Elon Musk’s diversity score was lower than Biden’s suggesting that it doesn't always play a big role in making interesting speeched.
“President Donald Trump’s speeches exhibited about 27% lexical diversity, while President Joe Biden’s stood at around 26% — both lower than most others in the study. Similarly, Elon Musk, known for his transformative impact on technology and space exploration, displayed a lexical diversity of about 22%. This relatively low word variance could suggest a focused and consistent use of language in their communications,” said the WordFinder analysis.
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Human rights activists top the list from the group that offers a free online service for stumped players of Wordle and other word puzzles and games.
“Topping our list was Ales Bialiatski, a Belarusian human rights activist whose lexical diversity reached an impressive 56.2%. This means that more than half of the words in his speeches were unique, indicating a richly varied use of language in advocating for human rights,” said WordFinder.
“We found Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, had the second-highest diversity score (46.4%) among the international leaders studied. He also used ‘think’ in his speeches more than any other word,” they added.