Can't decipher Trump-speak? Meet Margaret, the computer bot

The passage, ostensibly commemorating a World War II battle, careened wildly. Trump shifted verb tenses and subjects without warning. Syntax was tortured and conjunctions collided. He added sub-clause to sub-clause, parenthetical to parenthetical, preposition to preposition.

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By the time Trump mentioned winning for the fourth time, Margaret crashed.

β€œIt was still trying to punctuate it like it was English, versus trying to punctuate it like it was Trump,” Frischling recalled.

So Frischling rebooted. He hired a computer expert with a PhD in machine punctuation to unteach Margaret normal grammar and syntax β€” and teach it to decipher Trump-speak instead.

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