I suggest we promote giving DJT a new name. Let's call him Dotard J. Trump. nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. No need to apologize - we're all learning!

So many words in our language vary in context or usage, depending on the region we're from, customs of the populace, the classes and professions of people we're exposed to, etc. I had never heard the word dotard until this recent exposure.

Being raised in the middle-South (TN) in the 50s and 60s by depression era folks that only made it through the 8th grade, our language was kept quite basic. And, continuing my life as an engineer, that tradition was maintained for clarity and accuracy in communication. For me, there's nothing wrong or backward with operating our lives using simple, straight-forward dialog.

It does however, annoy me to no end when people distort or abuse common words in our language to insult opposing groups of folks, and then repeat those insults to the point to where those abused words loose their traditional meaning. The Republican-invented words "libertard" or "libtard" is probably the best example, along with their overall abuse of the word liberal. Thank goodness, most of that abusive banter is kept contained within their talk bubble. Our language will suffer no long-term harm.

I doubt if D. Trump is retarded in the classical sense, but instead conclude his intellect is probably no better than average. What astounds me is his very poor sentence structures and frequent incoherence. I can't fathom him being so isolated in his world of business that he developed that sort of backward, broken speech.

Thanks for pointing out that Kim Jong-Un really didn't use the word and that a translator sort of just pulled it out of the air - sending many Americans running for their dictionaries!