Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Politics Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Politics | The Profanity President: Trump’s Four-Letter Vocabulary Advertisement Supported by White House Memo ByPeter Baker May 19, 2019 WASHINGTON — In modern times, presidents have rarely been church mice afraid of a little salty language. But President Trump has grown increasingly willing in recent months to say in public what most of his predecessors tried to keep behind closed doors. His is the profanity presidency, full of four-letter denunciations of his enemies and earthy dismissals of allegations lodged against him. At rallies and in interviews, on Twitter and in formal speeches, he relishes the bad-boy language of a shock jock, just one more way of gleefully provoking the political establishment bothered by his norm-shattering ways. In a single speech on Friday alone, he managed to … [Read more...] about The Profanity President: Trump’s Four-Letter Vocabulary
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The Monthly Migraine – How migraine changed my relationship with words
I’ve built my whole career on words. I received a journalism degree from Grand Valley State University, worked as an entertainment writer right out of college, became a magazine editor a couple years later and have built a robust freelance-writing side hustle. In college, I wanted to make sure my vocabulary was in tip-top shape before embarking on my words-focused career, so I’d put up a "word of the week" on a whiteboard in my living room. I learned more words, and my roommates even got involved, and told me they enjoyed seeing new words they can use. I love words, but not nearly as much as I did when I was a bright-eyed journalism student, and there’s a reason for that. LOSING MY WORDS I started noticing my trouble with words a few years ago. I’d be having a conversation or writing a piece when the word I want to use is just… not there. I’m a writer, I have aced every vocabulary quiz, every spelling test and even was a spelling-bee finalist in my … [Read more...] about The Monthly Migraine – How migraine changed my relationship with words
U.P. college unveils 2019 banished words list
Kathleen Gray Detroit Free Press Published 6:23 AM EST Dec 31, 2018 If the wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University have their way, the vocabulary of President Donald Trump is going to shrink dramatically in 2019. "Collusion" is among the list of 18 words that LSSU suggested should be banished from our collective vocabularies for overuse, misuse or general uselessness. It's a word that Trump frequently uses, including in a Tweet posted Saturday, that went, in part: "The Russian Collusion fabrication is the greatest Hoax in the history of American politics. The only Russian Collusion was with Hillary and the Democrats!" In nominating the word for banishment, John from Grosse Pointe Park, wrote, "We all need to collude on getting rid of this word." The list, which started in 1976 and included the word "Macho," was the brainchild of the late W.T. Rabe, a public relations director at Upper Peninsula school. It's been published every year since, with thousands of nominations … [Read more...] about U.P. college unveils 2019 banished words list
UP college unveils 2019 banished words list
Kathleen Gray Detroit Free Press Published 12:01 AM EST Dec 31, 2018 If the wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University have their way, the vocabulary of President Donald Trump is going to shrink dramatically in 2019. "Collusion" is among the list of 18 words that LSSU suggested should be banished from our collective vocabularies for overuse, misuse or general uselessness. It's a word that Trump frequently uses, including in a Tweet posted Saturday, that went, in part: "The Russian Collusion fabrication is the greatest Hoax in the history of American politics. The only Russian Collusion was with Hillary and the Democrats!" In nominating the word for banishment, John from Grosse Pointe Park, wrote, "We all need to collude on getting rid of this word." The list, which started in 1976 and included the word "Macho," was the brainchild of the late W.T. Rabe, a public relations director at Upper Peninsula school. It's been published every year since, with thousands of nominations … [Read more...] about UP college unveils 2019 banished words list
High School Students Petition for Exam Remark Because They Couldn’t Understand the Word ‘trivial’
WorldA group of students in New Zealand have launched a complaint against an exam board after encountering an unusual word that many did not understand—”trivial.”The year 13 students—aged between 17 and 18 and equivalent to 12th grade in the U.S.—were stumped by the “unfamiliar word” during a history exam when asked to discuss a quote attributed to Julius Caesar, Newshub reported.The “Causes and Consequences” exam asked the students to explain the extent to which they agreed or disagreed with the Caesar quote, in which he discussed the causes and consequences of historical events.“Events of importance are the result of trivial causes,” the quote read.But the wording left some students at a loss, leaving them unable to complete the exam properly. The offending word—”trivial,” meaning of little value or importance—was too confusing for some.A petition started by some of the examinees is now … [Read more...] about High School Students Petition for Exam Remark Because They Couldn’t Understand the Word ‘trivial’