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captain queeg

(10,035 posts)
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 09:20 PM Apr 2020

Trump has destroyed the English language

First by his constant use of superlatives (great, tremendous, very very very good) to describe everything making those kinds of words so watered down as to be meaningless. Second because he is such a despicable lout that I’ve run thru every negative descriptive word I know and have run out of terms severe enough to describe him.

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Trump has destroyed the English language (Original Post) captain queeg Apr 2020 OP
Yeah PJMcK Apr 2020 #1
Dr. McWhorter, linquist re: trump's remedial development-- at link RestoreAmerica2020 Apr 2020 #2
Priceless! nt Alex4Martinez Apr 2020 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author RestoreAmerica2020 Apr 2020 #12
I could listen to someone like Professor McWhorter all... 3catwoman3 Apr 2020 #13
Listen to the recent video of Prince Charles... the antidote to Fat Nixon. (n/t) SMC22307 Apr 2020 #3
I had an English professor in college Haggis for Breakfast Apr 2020 #4
Also "like" and "worried" drove my late British wife round the bend. rickford66 Apr 2020 #6
The one word that drives me crazy Haggis for Breakfast Apr 2020 #9
He's done it in different categories of ways: UTUSN Apr 2020 #7
Like a comma keithbvadu2 Apr 2020 #8
Donnie's dumbed it down to the dumbest levels possible Blue Owl Apr 2020 #10
He has to dumb it down bigly so his brain-dead cult can understand him. Jack-o-Lantern Apr 2020 #11
Coincidently, not long ago I started keeping a list of words and terms that have been added Totally Tunsie Apr 2020 #14

Response to Alex4Martinez (Reply #5)

3catwoman3

(23,812 posts)
13. I could listen to someone like Professor McWhorter all...
Sun Apr 5, 2020, 01:27 AM
Apr 2020

...day long.

10 seconds of Trump makes mY teeth clench.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
4. I had an English professor in college
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 09:55 PM
Apr 2020

that told us the first day -- "The use of the word 'very' must be supported by the remainder of the sentence. But it's overkill and I don't like to see it used. There are other, far more creative, ways to convey an abundance. And if I ever see the words "very, very" used in anything, you will fail this course.

I've never forgotten him. (Thank you Dr. Wonder, you made me a wordsmith.) Or that quote.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
9. The one word that drives me crazy
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 11:12 PM
Apr 2020

is "irregardless," which is not a word. It's "regardless" or "irrespective" to be correct.

I could give you a list of the mangling of the English language that makes me crackers, but it would wind around the block.

The late George Carlin did a wonderful bit of stand-up about how cretins, corporations and crackpots have placed words into our lexicon that DO NOT belong there.

UTUSN

(70,494 posts)
7. He's done it in different categories of ways:
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 10:56 PM
Apr 2020

* Infantile coinages instead of authentic words: "fake news" instead of distortion/propaganda/hyperbole, etc.

* Opposites: Name-calling others with descriptives that really apply to him - "disgraceful"

* Shaming/ridicule words


The overall effect of this degradation of language, as the O.P. says, is that their appropriate use is RUINED for us.







Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
14. Coincidently, not long ago I started keeping a list of words and terms that have been added
Sun Apr 5, 2020, 03:03 AM
Apr 2020

Last edited Sun Apr 5, 2020, 04:19 AM - Edit history (1)

(not for the better) to the English language as the result of Chump's presidency. Some are old phrases that have taken a new meaning in the last 5 years or so.

Here's what I have thus far:

alternative facts
be best
believe me
bigly
collusion
covfefe
dotard
executive time
fake news
hamberder
MAGA
MAGAts
Nambia
pee tape
smocking gun
stable genius
triggered
trumpery
trumpian
trumpiness
Trumpism
"Two Corinthians."
unpresidented
WH Council
witch hunt

Feel free to add on!

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