President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night (Jan. 30), stressing growth in the economy during his first year in office, his stance on immigration and ramping up the battle against terrorism. He rarely strayed from his script and made a point to praise several individuals he deemed "the best of America."
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune placed text of the Trump's address in a word cloud generator, which filtered out articles, pronouns, as well as common and modal verbs to determine the 100 most frequently used words in his speech. It generated the image above -- the bigger the word appears, the more often it was used.
Our words matter. It's not how much you say, but it's making what you say count. Are your words making an impact or is it just chatter? Are you contributing to the conversation or trolling? Right now, there is a lot of noise out there that, unfortunately, is drowning out real, constructive conversations. Political correctness is dead and has been replaced by a spare-no-feelings, tell-it-like-it-is attitude. I'm not a fan mainly because, as a communicator, I understand that it's not so much what you say as how you say it. Being politically correct doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't speak truth, it is just the recognition that I need to take other people's feelings and dignity into account when I speak. I value frankness as much as anyone, but our words carry more impact if they are not weighed down by rudeness and baseless stereotypes.
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