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2016 Postmortem

Xipe Totec

(44,589 posts) Mon Oct 10, 2016, 07:43 PM Oct 2016

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New word: Remorsement (noun) A retracted endorsement.

Example used in a sentence:

Trump has 42 remorsements so-far, while Hillary still has zero.

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New word: Remorsement (noun) A retracted endorsement. (Original Post) Xipe Totec Oct 2016 OP

That's good as is disendorsement. TexasProgresive Oct 2016 #1

Not as good -- better! n/t Silent3 Oct 2016 #4

Yep, because it's got remorse in it. Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2016 #9

I love it. Lifelong Protester Oct 2016 #2

I think I did coin it, but there's always the danger of unconscious plagiarism. nt Xipe Totec Oct 2016 #3

Is there anything really new under the sun? TexasProgresive Oct 2016 #5

nanos gigantum humeris insidentes Xipe Totec Oct 2016 #6

I may be standing on the shoulders of giants but I can't see over their heads. TexasProgresive Oct 2016 #8

+1 nt ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2016 #7

LOL! AwakeAtLast Oct 2016 #10

TexasProgresive

(12,785 posts)

1. That's good as is disendorsement.

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 07:55 PM

Oct 2016

Silent3

(15,909 posts)

4. Not as good -- better! n/t

Reply to TexasProgresive (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 08:02 PM

Oct 2016

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,486 posts)

9. Yep, because it's got remorse in it.

Reply to Silent3 (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 08:47 PM

Oct 2016

Unlike most Republicans.

Lifelong Protester

(8,421 posts)

2. I love it.

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 07:57 PM

Oct 2016

did you coin it? Clever!

Xipe Totec

(44,589 posts)

3. I think I did coin it, but there's always the danger of unconscious plagiarism. nt

Reply to Lifelong Protester (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 07:59 PM

Oct 2016

TexasProgresive

(12,785 posts)

5. Is there anything really new under the sun?

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 08:06 PM

Oct 2016

My mother was majoring in music composition. She would be working on an assignment and suddenly realize that she'd incorporated some current pop song melody in her piece. She'd loved that, "unconscious plagiarism."

Xipe Totec

(44,589 posts)

6. nanos gigantum humeris insidentes

Reply to TexasProgresive (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 08:11 PM

Oct 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

- Sir Isaac Newton

TexasProgresive

(12,785 posts)

8. I may be standing on the shoulders of giants but I can't see over their heads.

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 08:24 PM

Oct 2016

ProudProgressiveNow

(6,189 posts)

7. +1 nt

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 08:12 PM

Oct 2016

AwakeAtLast

(14,315 posts)

10. LOL!

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Tue Oct 11, 2016, 05:07 PM

Oct 2016

Perfect!

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