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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump invents imaginary word "euphenism" to explain his lies about Carrier jobs
Dog help us, our next President is a functionally illiterate man-child!!
http://www.palmerreport.com/news/donald-trump-invents-imaginary-word-euphenism-to-explain-his-lies-about-carrier-jobs/388/
But that was a euphenism, said Donald Trump while trying to explain how the Carrier deal went so horribly wrong for him and for American workers and for the taxpayers who just footed the bill for his failed stunt. In the video below you can hear that he clearly said euphenism, an imaginary word we have to keep teaching to our spell checker. We checked with the Merriam Webster dictionary and confirmed that no such word exists.
Even if Trump was attempting to use the word euphemism, it still made no sense in the context in which he used it. He was trying to explain why his bold claims about saving Carrier jobs during the campaign and in recent days have turned out to be a grossly exaggerated claim (source: PolitiFact) that he knew he could never pull off. Thats not what a euphemism is at all. Most people would simply call it a broken promise or a lie. Watch Donald Trump make up the imaginary word euphenism in the very brief video below:
gordianot
(15,237 posts)There is not anything redeemable about anything Trump says or does for anyone beside Donald Trump and his own personal financial concerns.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)They had a tendency to mispronounce words they'd heard others use. One guy would always say "devil's avo-kate" in place of devils advocate.
These are the folks who don't/can't read and lack intellectual curiosity. (they're also in the drivers seat at the moment)
OTOH, you know who the readers are as they mispronounce words they've read, but not often heard, such as segue or epitome.
These are the folks who read and display intellectual curiosity.
BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)His stooges will update us on our evolving vocabulary as he bumbles along.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)he'll be telling us all that HE invented the word "conversate".
Cha
(297,138 posts)Rhetorical!
mercuryblues
(14,530 posts)rhedorical?
Cha
(297,138 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And his reign will go down in euphamy.
trof
(54,256 posts)<iframe width="640" height="360" src="
" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Tommy_Carcetti
(43,173 posts)And will he make do on his promise to bring titties back to Detroit?
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I still can't get my mind around it.