Swammerdami
Squadron Leader
We have a pretty good idea how Trump will be portrayed by Hollywood. The Comey Rule did a fair job; I don't know how a pro-Trump filmmaker, if there is such a thing, could improve it. Yes, he comes across as criminal, narcissistic and ignorant, but these are all traits his admirers admire.
But how will he be remembered in dictionaries? The great experimental physicist Michael Faraday has his name attached to capacitors (did I tell about the time I "fixed" a half-million dollar mainframe with a cheap 100 picoFarad cap?) Louis Pasteur is brought to mind whenever you buy milk. Charles Cunningham Boycott's name is still invoked 140 years after he was "boycotted." John Montagu (1718 - 1792) is eaten millions of times every day — he was the Earl of Sandwich. Soldiers often end up with a souvenir from Henry Shrapnel. Sadism and masochism are both named after people.
Sixty million of us are well aware that Donald Trump is the greatest Prez ever (with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln); surely he will be remembered in the dictionary.
Madison Square Garden was named after a President, and when I was a kid I played with Lincoln Logs, but these don't count: they're proper names not in the dictionary. Will "trump" be the first Presidential name to end up in the dictionary uncapitalized? (Retrospective etymologies — "John was so irate that his spittle flecked on the guests as he ranted, but I trumped his performance by letting out a loud juicy fart" — are disallowed.)
I'd like to hear suggestions: what new words are likely to come into being which, two centuries from now, will be common while the memory of their eponym (hopefully) fades? I'll offer a few suggestions.
* trumps - n. adult diapers. "Don't go out without your trumps!"
* trump - v. to prevaricate. "Chairman, this witness is clearly trumping."
* trumper - n. a gullible moron. "They lined up like trumpers to pay outrageous prices for the fake jareds."
But how will he be remembered in dictionaries? The great experimental physicist Michael Faraday has his name attached to capacitors (did I tell about the time I "fixed" a half-million dollar mainframe with a cheap 100 picoFarad cap?) Louis Pasteur is brought to mind whenever you buy milk. Charles Cunningham Boycott's name is still invoked 140 years after he was "boycotted." John Montagu (1718 - 1792) is eaten millions of times every day — he was the Earl of Sandwich. Soldiers often end up with a souvenir from Henry Shrapnel. Sadism and masochism are both named after people.
Sixty million of us are well aware that Donald Trump is the greatest Prez ever (with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln); surely he will be remembered in the dictionary.
Madison Square Garden was named after a President, and when I was a kid I played with Lincoln Logs, but these don't count: they're proper names not in the dictionary. Will "trump" be the first Presidential name to end up in the dictionary uncapitalized? (Retrospective etymologies — "John was so irate that his spittle flecked on the guests as he ranted, but I trumped his performance by letting out a loud juicy fart" — are disallowed.)
I'd like to hear suggestions: what new words are likely to come into being which, two centuries from now, will be common while the memory of their eponym (hopefully) fades? I'll offer a few suggestions.
* trumps - n. adult diapers. "Don't go out without your trumps!"
* trump - v. to prevaricate. "Chairman, this witness is clearly trumping."
* trumper - n. a gullible moron. "They lined up like trumpers to pay outrageous prices for the fake jareds."
