Moving into the 20th century, trade usages of "tomato" also became more ambiguous.

As we became more familiar with tomatoes, it was less common for texts to label them explicitly as "fruits" or "vegetables"

A sample of ordinary language supports the Court: tomato was used largely as a vegetable.

But in a sample of language from specialized trade contexts, "tomato" was used often as a fruit and vegetable.

Vilius Dranseika and @ivarr.bsky.social led this new large cross-cultural study in experimental jurisprudence, with a team of international collaborators

In multiple cultures and languages, there is the same positive/negative asymmetry on intuitions about personal identity and associated rights.

The effect also arises for lawyers!

Imagine a friend experienced a dramatic deterioration, becoming cruel and selfish. You might say this is not even the "same person."

But studies find that when judging dramatic improvements, people more often say the person is still the same.

A new paper finds this same asymmetry across cultures!

2. Khan's antitrust discourse was more accessible and included more moral language. See, e.g. this table comparing language in the recent Amazon complaint vs. those against Facebook (2020) and Microsoft (1998); and this readability score figure

1. "Khan broadened antitrust’s interest-based focus beyond consumers to include other stakeholders, especially workers." E.g., this figure: Trends of Relative Word Frequencies in FTC Chair Speeches