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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] dewline 2019-12-31 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
A pity that this word is needed so clearly right now!