Divisive and Deleterious Descriptors
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This week, Governor Romney used the words vitriolic and vituperative in the same sentence describing the tone of President
Obama’s campaign. I’m guessing that vituperative was found right next to vitriolic in the dictionary when someone
was writing that speech. The result made
the Governor sound like Mike Tyson does when he tries to sound smart. I probably
would have used contumelious, scurrilous or truculent for the second word, and
avoided the awkward letter V alliteration thing.
Danville
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The President says Joe Biden’s comments in
Danville Virginia regarding Republican plans for Wall Street were a distraction
to the substantive message. Vice
President Biden is known for being a loose cannon and for his frequent “gaffes”. But in 2008 he was selected as the President’s
running mate to balance the ticket, because of his experience, particularly as
a statesman. I have to wonder, would he make similar
gaffes, however well-intentioned, during heated negotiations with some crazy third
world leader? He acts like a drunken uncle,
but HE’s the VICE PRESIDENT.
WTF
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Speaking of words, “f-bomb” is now in the
Merriam-Webster dictionary. Surprisingly, it is NOT yet listed as a synonym of
the word for which it is most well-known as a substitute, or vice versa.
Synonyms the dictionary does
list for “f-bomb” are: frick, eff, bleep,
flip, farg, fork, phelps, flock, flick, flog, freak, frig, filth/forget (used
mostly in “Scarface” film edits for Television), flarn (used mostly by Bill
Cosby), falk (TV actor), fokken (Dutch), and fókka
(Swedish).
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