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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2019-12-30 11:28 pm

Screaming loudly, screamingly softly too

The necessity of the coinage is part of its definition, but kudos to Constanze Stelzenmüller for putting a German compound noun around our long international nightmare: Trumpregierungsschlamasselschmerz.

(Trumpschmerz is quicker to say, but then I can't note how delighted I am that shlimazl appears to have been successfully loaned from Yiddish into German.)
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[personal profile] nineweaving 2019-12-31 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Magnificent compound! I wish it could dissolve him, his misgovernment, and all its evil effects.

Nine
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[personal profile] dewline 2019-12-31 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
A pity that this word is needed so clearly right now!
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2019-12-31 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
When talking of Trump I suppose that fine word schmuck is as good as any!
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[personal profile] sara 2020-01-01 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
I have moved from referring to him as That Man. I now call him That Bad Man.
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[personal profile] sartorias 2019-12-31 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my, that is PERFECT.