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The word for 2017 is 'dotard' (Original Post)
SummerSnow
Sep 2017
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janterry
(4,429 posts)1. Embarrassingly, it appears he has a more sophistocated vocabularly than Rump
hlthe2b
(102,525 posts)2. Well, his interpreters do, for sure.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)3. So does my middle school aged
Niece.
Sanity Claws
(21,866 posts)4. I learned a new word from the North Korean dictator
That is more than I ever learned from 45.
meow2u3
(24,776 posts)5. Plain English translation for 'dotard'
A senile old fart. It describes Racket Man to a T.
Too bad it came from another demented maniac from NK.
hatrack
(59,602 posts)6. And thanks to Tolkien, I didn't even have to look it up!
"My son, your father is old but not yet dotard. I can see and hear, as was my wont, and little of what you have half said and left unsaid is now hidden from me. I know the answer to many riddles. Alas, alas for Boromir!"