Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: HenHanna Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang Subject: Re: If [Trumpery] means (see below), What does [Kamalary] mean? Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:24:00 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 07:24:01 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a8bd04c3b2f51b88e59216ddd9935e8d"; logging-data="1358801"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX190ZgXx0MhQw84nyIayHCffgUOR2kgXWaI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:JFN1Pd4v3xGcvJLq5ICGnpQNbrI= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2938 On 8/23/2024 9:54 PM, Hibou wrote: > Le 24/08/2024 à 01:23, HenHanna a écrit : >> >> If   [Trumpery]  means (see below),  What does  [Kamalary]  mean? >> >> >>       \TRUMP-uh-ree\ • noun. >>                   1 : worthless nonsense >>                   2 : trivial or useless articles : junk. >> >> 1. something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff · >> 2. nonsense; twaddle. > > Ah yes, the old 'trumpery' joke. > > As an outsider, there are things I don't understand. For instance: Trump > said he wanted to make America great again (it may have been 'grate'; > I've heard it but not seen it written). Harris now says that America is > the greatest nation on Earth. Is she saying that Trump succeeded? Yes... The Liberal-Acrobatic-Superhearing... When Trump says [MAGA] (Make America Great Again) -- omg... the Horrors! What a vulgar, LOW thing to say! But when a Democrat says almost the same thing.... ..... > > (Pots and kettles? Scotland did for a while describe itself as "the best > small country in the world". No-one ever did explain how those > responsible had arrived at that conclusion. > > ) > > I do wonder at the amount of time the BBC devotes to American elections. > Given that US elections drag on and on, for months and months - or is it > years? - and that there is some coverage every day, I suspect it adds up > to far more than our national broadcaster gives to British elections. If > so, is this right and proportionate? It's certainly tiresome. > > FU2 aue alone. > You post to 2 NG's and then force a response to only ONE --------- how can it make ANY sense?