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Offhand I can’t think of any cool, succinct description. But I would say, even though it’s a bit awkward, that a person whose mother is a Japanese citizen and father is a Korean citizen is of “Japanese-Korean parentage citizenship” – their parents have different nationalities. However, if the person...

Thanks Phil. And speaking of buffoons, which would be a compliment to many of our government officeholders from the President on down, let’s hope that we can mitigate some of the damage they have done (think climate change, rule of law, healthcare, tariffs, coddling of despots, selection of incompet...

Based on the number of look-ups on their online websites the following dictionaries came up with their Word of Year . <Merriam-Webster’s 2018 Word of the Year is ”justice,” which saw a 74% increase in look-ups from 2017. The dictionary noted that the Mueller investigation led to frequent headlines a...

The following quote in Boston.com from American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and film producer Stephen Wright (born 1955) appeared in The Week, 15 November, page 17: <When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.> _________________________________ Ken Greenwald - November 29, 20...

Erik,

Beautiful!!

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Ken - November 14, 2018

<2018 “While Washington seems increasingly ready to counter Chinese expansionism, including on the high seas, its capacity to wrong-foot its Asian allies makes it all the more important that leading regional powers, such as India and Japan, do more to promote economic and political stability for th...

Thanks Erik,

Those suggestions fit well.
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Ken - November 6, 2018

<2018 “Start with roasted carrots: a classic, holiday-worthy side dish. Add Simply Organic’s dried rosemary and a few glugs of maple syrup and it’s a seconds-worthy side dish.”— wholefoodsmarket.com , 5 November> Imagine going through life having eluded crossing paths with the unit the glug . Howev...

I like "The bowl is chipped." No muss no fuss!
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Ken Greenwald - November 4, 2018

A most unfortunate disappointment!
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Ken Greenwald - November 3, 2018

‘Incel’ and ‘incel’ are relatively new words which I had never heard before: <2018 “Whether expressed in right-wing, left-wing, jihadist, or black nationalist ideological terms, today’s acts of political violence share a common lineage in the above mixture and together have resulted in almost 200 de...

pie-hole or piehole or pie hole [[slang]] is your mouth and it is commonly used in the expression “Shut your pie-hole.” ___________________________________________ writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary Shut your pie-hole : Shut up. Origin of Shut Your Pie Hole : Shut your cake hole came first, and ...

John, I agree with you. i If I saw "“Calhoon’s Tour Hypoed by Hollywood“ without knowing they were trying to promote the tour, I would infer it might mean "panned by Hollywood" since the prefix "hypo' means below, beneath, under, less than normal, deficient. However, as you pointed out and American ...

<2018 “At a time when literary convention favors novelists who write narrowly about personal experience, Power’s ambit is refreshingly unfashionable, restoring to the form an authority it has shirked.”— The Atlantic , June, page 32> ‘Ambit’ is a small word with useful meaning, I like it, and I was ...

John,

Interesting observation: betide / be tied. Who would have thunk? Damn the English language!
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Ken Greenwald - September 29, 2018