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TARFU (Totally And Royally Fucked Up or Things Are Really Fucked Up) was also used during World War II. [citation needed] The 1944 U.S. Army animated shorts Three Brothers and Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu In The Navy (both directed by Friz Freleng), feature the characters Private Snafu, Private Fubar, and Seaman Tarfu (with a cameo by ...
Which of us could stand up to a similar level of linguistic scrutiny?". [ 6 ] In 2010, Philip Hensher called Bush's apparent coinage of the term "misunderestimated" one of his "most memorable additions to the language, and an incidentally expressive one: it may be that we rather needed a word for 'to underestimate by mistake'."
English: pdf version of englisch wikibook on basic writing This file was created with MediaWiki to LaTeX . The LaTeX source code is attached to the PDF file (see imprint).
Some European Union directives describe action plans in order to reach a defined target in air quality or noise reduction. If the target cannot be reached by a member state, the member needs to write a report. Sometimes action plans contain deadlines by which the plan must be ready to start the action(s) and the targets are to be reached.
6-3-5 Brainwriting is a particular form of brainstorming through the medium of graphics; [3] in particular, it is classified under the intuitive and progressive methodologies as it involves driving inspiration from other members in a cyclical way. [4]
[13] [14] People who support safetyism are more likely to self-report cognitive distortions (e.g., assuming the worst), to believe that words can cause harm, and to approve of trigger warnings. [6] By contrast, Greg Lukianoff believes that words and ideas alone, unless turned into action, can never cause real harm. [15]
An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification by Cory Doctorow at DEF CON 31, 2023. Enshittification was first used by Cory Doctorow in a November 2022 blog post [4] that was republished three months later in Locus. [5] He expanded on the concept in another blog post [6] that was republished in the January 2023 edition of Wired: [7]
A mondegreen (/ ˈ m ɒ n d ɪ ˌ ɡ r iː n / ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. [1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.