Want to say or write something anonymously? Or pretend you’re someone else? Good luck. Linguists like Robert Leonard of Hofstra University are using evermore sophisticated means to figure out who you really are. In this episode we trace the rise of forensic linguistics, from identifying the Unabomber to the case of the Trump Administration’s ‘lodestar’ insider.
Read more about forensic linguist Robert Leonard here and here.
Music in the podcast by Podington Bear, Blue Dot Sessions and T. Morri. Photo by Marco Verch/Flickr Creative Commons. Read a transcript of this episode here.
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Our local paper ran a letter I wrote paying tribute to my jazz heroes.
Somehow a networking app connected me to someone who wrote me the nastiest email you could imagine.
Would anyone like to try to analyze it?