Lt. dem Beitrag Der erste Schritt der Schweiz zur „kooperativen Neutralität“ im Ukraine-Krieg (Min. 6:28) in der Sendung „Europa Heute” auf Deutschlandfunk „operieren russische Oligarchen durch Konstruktionen mit Strohmännern, Strohfrauen gut getarnt”. Ehrlich jetzt? Strohfrauen? Wir gendern jetzt schon Gegenstände bzw. Sprachbilder, die kein biologisches Geschlecht haben?
The Atlantic: The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet
Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can’t imagine having read in any other place, or at any other time in history.
Near the top of any list of the most treasured sentence fragments posted there, the now-defunct account @Horse_ebooks would have several entries.
Medium: Nomen est Omen: When Your Name Says the Quiet Part Loud
Of course, the most delicious instance of the too-perfect aptronym is Donald J. Trump. Whether as a given name or a surname, “Donald” is derived from the Celtic words for “world” and “power,” more specifically from the Proto-Celtic Dubno-valos (“world-mighty, ruler of the world”) — an appropriately allegorical moniker for an aspirational tinpot dictator who fawned on authoritarian leaders like Kim Jong-un and Rodrigo Duterte.
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To be clear, The Donald’s surname is an Americanized version of the German Drumpf, a proper name whose only relation to Trumpy shenanigans like trumpery (defined by Webster’s as “1. Deceit; fraud. 2. Anything calculated to deceive by false show; anything externally splendid but intrinsically of little value; worthless finery”) is partly homonymic and otherwise rhetorical. There’s no linguistic connection between Trump’s surname and the verb “trump” and its phrasal variations. Even so, that’s irrelevant to our purpose, which is to tease out their aptronymic implications for comic (yet illuminating!) effect.
Preply: The worst passive-aggressive phrases, according to Americans
prehensile : zum Greifen geeignet
Beispielsatz: An elephant's prehensile penis is like a second trunk
Expressing laughter around the world: This is how to laugh online in 26 languages
Spektrum.de: Primaten: Die Sprache von Schimpansen ist komplexer als gedacht
Plus Magazine: The mystery of Zipf
Boingboing: The history of Blaccent
History Today: Goodbye to the Vikings
The term ‘Viking’ as it is commonly used is misleading, warping our perception of the Middle Ages. It should be retired.
XKC: Types of Scopes
The Guardian: France bans English gaming tech jargon in push to preserve language purity
Aeon: A history of punctuation
How we came to represent (through inky marks) the vagaries of the mind, inflections of the voice, and intensity of feeling.
The Public Domain Review: Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük
"A language without umlauts," [Johann Schleyer] wrote, "sounds monotonous, harsh, and boring."
Merriam-Webster: Some Notes On 'Asshat'