Language update for Boo-Hoo-Ner

Professor Polistra decided to hit the blackboard with a few word-turds, mainly because the last one is so perfectly topical.

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Eco-village:

A new synonym for 'feudal manor'.

The Prince of Wales acquired land at Knockroon, near Cumnock, in 2007 as part of a wider £45 million deal to rescue Dumfries House mansion and its antique furniture collection. The Prince of Wales used £20 million of his own charitable foundations’ cash in the Dumfries House acquisition and planned to build up to 770 new homes at Knockroon in a new “sustainable development”, along the lines of his Poundbury estate in Dorchester. But housebuilder Hope Homes, which said it had “designed, built and marketed Knockroon” for the past six years, has confirmed it has now left the project.

Hmm. Wonder why nobody wanted to live miles from nowhere, with no 'mod cons', serving the whims of His Holy Highness Chuckie The Microwit, solely to help His Holy Highness rescue his antique furniture collection? It's a complete puzzle.

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Official Sabotage:

BBC's new term for self-defense.

A French soldier has broken silence to apologize for sinking a Greenpeace genocide weapon. He says they should have disabled and marooned the genocide weapon without sinking it. He's wrong. BBC's on-air headline described France's necessary and appropriate self-defense as "official sabotage".

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Coronate:

Not new but suddenly dominant. As in this headline:

Don’t Coronate Carly Fiorina Just Yet

An excellent and necessary back-formation. We don't use golden crowns in everyday life, so crown as a transitive verb doesn't work. It's used most often to mean 'bop upside the head', secondarily in technical situations like road paving or water splash formation.

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Tracking:

Seems to be the successor to efforting in dumb journalism.

"Katie is tracking this earthquake. Katie, what's the latest?"

You can't track an earthquake or a celebrity story. An earthquake happens in one place. A celebrity story doesn't happen at all. It's pure fiction.

Tracking is a strongly appropriate metaphor with a wildfire, which moves through the landscape like a pack of predators destroying everything that wasn't protected with metal.

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Prof P thinks this is the best word-turd of all. It appeared in this account of the monstrosity known as Emmy:

Here's a of winners and nominees from Sunday's Emmy Awards. Winners are in bold.

Note the word        between a and of. The ideal noun for everything that happens on TV, which has passed beyond all conceivable boundaries of sanity, sense, logic, and thought. No combination of sounds or letters can possibly represent anything in the universe of TV. Only        suffices.

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Ka-Bets-You:

Bloomberg's pronunciation of Kotzebue, Alaska, while praising Idiot Obama's obeisance to Gaia.

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Louche:

A word that hasn't been used in a long time. Google Books Ngram gadget shows that it was common in the early Victorian era, then faded in the 20th century but mysteriously returned after 1980. The latter uses are most likely mentions of the word in books about old novels.

The word suddenly popped up in one of Hillary's emails, containing a description of Boo-Hoo-Ner by Blumenthal:

"Boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the House Republican Conference," Blumenthal wrote to Clinton. "They are repelled by his personal behavior. He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle," he added.

Yup. In the same week we learned that Fagboy Boo-Hoo-Ner was actively aiding and abetting the abortuaries while puking the usual self-serving lies to innocent Christians who are unfortunately still fooled. No surprise. That's the whole point of Repooflicans. Kill babies, ruin normal families, smash civilization, get the Christians to elect you.

That's louche.

Topical connection:

House Speaker John Boehner has been trying for 20 years to get a pope to come talk to Congress, and now it’s finally happening. To House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, it’s “thrilling beyond words.”

Loucheboy finally shows us where his/her real allegiance is. Heshe agrees with Pelosi and with Antipope Francine.

Sidethought: Without intending it, Blumenthal's observation tells us something positive about those "younger, more conservative members". They are not louche, and they are not cynical hypocrites.

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