Jun 9, 2024
Armand's words in Louis' mouth
The best part is that this is scientifically backed up.
In the beginning Daniel already dabbles in forensic linguistics by pointing out that the use of 3rd person to refer to oneself can be used as a means to distance oneself from the utterance.
Now listen what Coulthard and Johnson have to say about the evidential value of single identical strings:
The occurrence of long identical sequences in two texts supposedly independently created is less likely to be a result of two speaker/writers coincidentally selecting the same chunks by chance and more likely to be a product of borrowing (196)
Coulthard, Malcolm, and Alison Johnson. An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence. Routledge, 2007.
