At a recent round table meeting of business executives, & long after formally introducing Tim Cook of Apple, I quickly referred to Tim + Apple as Tim/Apple as an easy way to save time & words. Trump’s tweet, though, seems to make a different case: He was calling Tim Cook “Tim Apple” to save valuable time. It was still a time savings over saying “Tim Cook, Apple” or “Tim Cook of Apple.” How much? Trump at that point included both Cook’s last name — 0.27 seconds — and the word “of” itself — another 0.157 seconds, according to Audacity. (He could have saved 0.06 seconds by saying “Tim Cook” instead of “Tim Apple,” but that’s neither here nor there.)

Source: Washington Post March 11, 2019 15:22 UTC