Biden's not a dog's dinner: Champ, Major (and Snowflake) know a President when they sniff one (Trump thread #126)

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Isn't it gobsmacking that Rubio is demanding 'unconscious bias training' for Biden for using the word 'neanderthal' yet those hundreds if not thousands of tweets insulting people's appearance and worse by Trump.

Can he honestly demand this with a straight face... I remember the words Trump used. WE remember the words. Especially to women (slobs, pigs, horse face, dogs)

Now off to see the 'crowds' at yesterday's 'alternative inauguration' 😂

I think Biden is fine. Neanderthals are no more and they won't be offended.

I think Dr Seuss later changed his views and also published anti-racist illustrations.

'Former guy,' as he has become known on social media.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-fox-news-fire-karl-rove_n_6041c6cfc5b6429d0832553e?ri18n=true&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

For clarity, I am not Rubio

@TheSilveryPussycat

For clarity, I am not Rubio

Things you never thought you'd have to say

I know we have moved away from 'Former Guy' but his statement about Karl Rove is honestly hilarious.

It has everything in it... cancel culture (sack him sack him!) schoolboy insults (he's a pompous fool with bad advice) silly nicknames ('Liddle' Bob and 'Flakey' Flake) and a generous helping of bigging himself up. It is funny to read when what he says doesn't matter anymore

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/03/05/politics/trump-lawsuit-insurrection-eric-swalwell/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

The Daily Show
@TheDailyShow
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'Scandal Alert: Not only did Joe Biden call Republicans the N-word, but he forced them to acknowledge evolution.'

twitter.com/i/status/1367679259171426310

www.rawstory.com/federico-klein-riot/

'A Trump-appointed State Dept. aide allegedly beat officers at the U.S. Capitol with a stolen riot shield, used it to force open a Capitol Hill door, verbally engaged with police, and led insurrection rioters into the building, shouting, “We need fresh people, need fresh people."'

Indeed.

thehill.com/policy/national-security/541758-feds-investigating-links-between-lawmakers-capitol

I think it's a shame that Neanderthal (which was a German coinage) has recently gained a th in its pronunciation, when the Germans dropped the h from the spelling a hundred years or more ago. A vale in German is pronounced taal not thaal.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

I think it's a shame that Neanderthal (which was a German coinage) has recently gained a th in its pronunciation, when the Germans dropped the h from the spelling a hundred years or more ago. A vale in German is pronounced taal not thaal.

One thing you discover very quickly when you are a foreigner* is that your views on writing and pronunciation in your own language are all very well, but not always correct. So if the English are pronouncing it "th" then it's the Germans that are wrong. It's just how the world is.

How many times do you think I've been told I'm saying Tag-lee-a-telly wrong ? And don't get me started on expresso.

*Remember: you can never be a foreigner if you are British or American. It's just not possible.

(I wonder if there's an h. Cheddars to be found ? Or even better h. Chocolatedigestivitis - found face down .... )

The English are pronouncing it tal and the Americans are pronouncing it thal. Well, some Americans (possibly ones with German ancestry?) are pronouncing it tal as well. So one lot of correct non-foreigners is not in agreement with another lot of correct non-foreigners...

And the people who live in the place don't seem to agree about Budapest. (Don't get me started on Shrewsbury.)

Don't get me started on Shrewsbury

I am sure I have heard it pronounced "Shoves-bury". However (although this may be a reflection on Brummies) when I've said that I get told I'm an idiot. However it may be one of the pronunciations I inherited from my DM ... she had a theory that good diction was worth a stack of exam results and hasn't been proven wrong yet.

People when speaking their native language may pronounce certain words differently than other people when speaking their native language? No surprise and in most cases who cares.

FilleT vs fill-ay, valeT vs val-ay, conTROversy vs controVERSy, neanderTal vs neanderTHal, and a myriad of other words adopted from a third language now in commonplace usage in one's own, with one's own language's way of pronouncing it. As a general rule we still understand what the other person is saying and isn't that the most important thing?

(And this is coming from someone who get a wee bit irritated by mispronounced words)

People when speaking their native language may pronounce certain words differently than other people when speaking their native language? No surprise and in most cases who cares.

People are free to pronounce words how they like in their own inferior languages. But we all know the only correct way is in English. And English English at that.

I may need to take some time out from Brexiteer echo chambers.

DD2 is trying to learn Dutch and is making no concessions to English-is-the-only-way-to-manage-pronunciation. And nor am I. She's mastered Scheveningen.

Ah she won't be mistaken for a German then

I actually didn't realise it was Neanderthal and not Neandertaler. I have given up on pronouncing the th 'properly' anyway, I just can't do it.

Jim Sciutto @JimSciutto

Dems seem to have outplayed GOP on the Covid delay. After the all-night reading, @ChrisVanHollen simply got up, proposed shortening the debate from 20 hours to 3 and no Republican including @RonJohnsonWI was around to contest. In the end, the dramatic Bill reading delayed nothing

Have I said how much I love Jen Psaki?

Reporter: Why aren't you giving credit to the former admin since you're following 99% of their playbook?...

twitter.com/madisonkittay/status/1367550488187666432?s=21

@DuncinToffee

Jim Sciutto *@JimSciutto*

Dems seem to have outplayed GOP on the Covid delay. After the all-night reading, @ChrisVanHollen simply got up, proposed shortening the debate from 20 hours to 3 and no Republican including @RonJohnsonWI was around to contest. In the end, the dramatic Bill reading delayed nothing

Haaaaaaa that's brilliant

[quote EveryoneRevealsThemselves]Have I said how much I love Jen Psaki?

Reporter: Why aren't you giving credit to the former admin since you're following 99% of their playbook?...

twitter.com/madisonkittay/status/1367550488187666432?s=21[/quote]
That was classic.

Reporter has no examples of this "playbook"
And Jen just shuts it down.

I want to be Jen Psaki- she gives zero fucks.

@pointythings

DD2 is trying to learn Dutch and is making no concessions to English-is-the-only-way-to-manage-pronunciation. And nor am I. She's mastered Scheveningen.

If she spoke Middle English or Anglo-Saxon she would find it easier to learn Dutch, I was told by my Mediaeval Studies tutor. He read The Battle of Maldon out to us unhesitatingly, having had the advantage of being born and brought up in Utrecht. Likewise, many years ago a friend of mine who had been learning Anglo-Saxon found that he was charged less in Amsterdam cafés if he ordered in that language: they laughed at his funny accent but they understood what he was saying.

AskingQuestions if I suggest to her that she should learn Middle English in order to accelerate her learning of Dutch, I think the answer would probably end in 'off' . She wants to study marine biology at uni, the Dutch is just because it's my (technically) first language.