KIM Kardashian let loose with an uncharacteristically caustic series of tweets this week, hitting back at a few other celebs who’d criticised her penchant for naked selfies.
The tweets were so sassy, some even wondered if they’d been ghostwritten by her husband Kanye West, infamous for his ‘tweet now, think of the consequences later’ approach to social media.
Kardashian denied the claims — but now an expert linguist has offered some rather convincing evidence that it may in fact have
been Yeezy’s fingers doing the talking..
The New York Daily News enlisted the help of esteemed forensic linguist Professor Rob Leonard, who gives expert testimony about language and writing in murder trials. Along with his colleague Juliane Ford, Leonard looked at the tweets in question and compared them to previous tweets by both Kim and Kanye, searching for patterns and discrepancies (we can only assume there was no big murder trial happening that day that required their services). Here’s what they found:
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Kim’s Piers Morgan referenced “some ashley madison type s**t.” But Kim doesn’t appear to use that word in any of her previous tweets, while Kanye not only uses it, but uses it in the same way: “essentially [to mean] ‘stuff’ or ‘things.’”
Kim opened all of her tweets with a simple “hey.” Her hubby does that often — ”hey @BetteMidler” is similar to West’s “hey Larry Page” tweet. Looking at previous tweets from Kim, though, she doesn’t usually use “hey” to express individuals — only when addressing her followers (“hey guys!”).
Kim’s hashtags were all in lower case letters. “Kim’s are always either #ALLCAPS or #CapitalizeEveryWordNoMatterWhatItIs,” Leonard writes in an email, “whereas Kanye is either #ALLCAPS, or #nocaps or #Onlythefirstwordcapped.” So this style matched Kanye, not Kim.
Lastly, “Twitter” was always spelled “twitter” — but Kim always uses the upper case “T,” whereas West usually writes it with a lower case “t” or in all caps.
The truth is out there ...
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