The Left and the Right Speak Different Languages--Literally

Liberals and conservatives often seem to speak different languages. A new study using artificial intelligence says that is now literally true. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University collected more than 86.6 million comments from more than 6.5 million users on 200,000 YouTube videos, then analyzed them using an AI technique normally employed to translate between two languages. The researchers found that people on each side of the political divide often use different words to express similar ideas. For instance, the term "mask" among liberal commenters is roughly equivalent to the term "muzzle" for conservatives.