Print and broadcast media have picked it up, and politicians continually sprinkle their verbiage with it. I’m talking about Trumpese. Sigh. It brings out the teacher in me. So, here, people, is a lesson for you in the form of synonyms so you can improve your vocabulary–and save my ground-down teeth.
Disaster: calamity, catastrophe, collapse, debacle, defeat, failure, fiasco, harm, tragedy
Nightmare: horror, ordeal, bad dream
Terrible: dreadful, frightful, hideous, horrendous, horrid, abhorrent,appalling, atrocious, awful, dangerous, dire, disastrous, disturbing
Great and Huge and Tremendous: fantastic, enormous, very large, considerable, immense, vast, mammoth
The English language is so rich, with so many words to choose from. Please, PLEASE, Mr. President, politicians, and members of the media–PLEASE take advantage of its richness.
Unfortunately Pres. Trump doesn’t know how to use the English language subtly! I really think he needs to have his Twitter account closed!
How can you use “subtle” and “Trump” in the same sentence?! I’m just amazed that he’s done so well in business, negotiating with corporate heads, especially foreign corps who must have to suspend their national and/or religious customs to deal with him. A good semantics class would do him a world of good and, by extension, our world a world of good.