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Robert L. Backman
3 speeches between 1983 and 1991, mostly as Seventy. 14,466 words in the transcripts.
Speeches
3
1983–1991
Words
14,466
in the transcripts
Reading grade
8.9
Flesch–Kincaid, average
Scriptures cited
35
11.7 per speech
Callings
Seventy
3 speeches
Leadership record
linked
in the leadership database
Speeches by year
19831991
Signature phrases
Words and two-word phrases this speaker uses far more than the rest of the corpus, by weighted log-odds. Stop words, names of deity and the ordinary vocabulary of a sermon are excluded.
- character 36
- jack 12
- janus 9
- ted 9
- true education 9
- charlie 8
- popular opinion 8
- mob 8
- joe 7
- lucy 7
- peanuts 5
- molding 5
Scriptures cited most
- Doctrine and Covenants16
- 2 Nephi5
- Alma3
- John2
- Matthew2
- 2 Corinthians1
- Moroni1
- Isaiah1
Callings when speaking
- Seventy 3
As given in the bylines: of the Seventy · of the Presidency of the Seventy
Every speech
- 9 Jan 1983Looking to the Futureof the Seventy · Devotional5,455 w11 refs
- 23 Oct 1984“To Thine Own Self Be True”of the Seventy · Devotional4,316 w2 refs
- 20 Aug 1991Education: Molding Characterof the Presidency of the Seventy · Devotional4,695 w22 refs