September 4, 2018· 31 min

Matt Levine Dissects Elon Musk's Controversial Tweet

Orality
Model
86%
Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,448 words)
M:29%
HostJoe Weisenthal(766 words)
M:28%
GuestMatt Levine(3,852 words)
M:94%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic27%
incredible, definitely, very
Engagement65%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, right
Repetition100%
like (181x), know (71x), they (64x)
Parallelism89%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So the last few weeks have jus..., And ever since, And then he sa...
Sound Patterns76%
49 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases6%
you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging16%
quite, could, possibly
Passive Voice5%
is assured, were addicted, was secured
Abstract Nouns22%
investment, vacation, legality
Subordination9%
since, because, whereas
Sentence Length42%
Avg: 15.4 words/sentence
Word Complexity44%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style35%
421 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style89%
really, actually, incredibly

Description

There's been an intense debate about what Tesla CEO Elon Musk meant when he tweeted in early August that he was taking the company private and that funding was "secured.” Bloomberg Opinion writer Matt Levine discusses how securities regulators might view such a comment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.