If I remember correctly (quite possibly I'm not) - he actually wanted to say braggadocio, but ended up saying "braggadocious", a far cooler, more beach boy surfer sounding version

As a follow-up to the Stern cover.....It seems like Trump spurs creativity. I like this one.

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...but what would we do without Trump.

Start taking a closer look to Merkel and Macron? Or Putin?

Just because you're looking at the moon, it doesn't mean you can't see the stars.

Fake news!

I still have to see the same criticism towards EU leaders and especially towards our great comrade Putin.... (we'd have to actually speak Russian in order to dig into some real stuff, unless of course - we take word for word what Russia Today tells us)

So you haven't seen any of the threads calling Theresa May and Corbyn? Or the thread about Merkel?

I wonder if those four people who's names we see regurgitating here over and over and over are really worth all that attention: Trump, Merkel, May, Putin. The others are lucky and slowly getting forgotten - Macron (unless his squaw gets a new haircut or something), etc.

We need new threads.

Educate me, please, before your outrage blinds your reasoning completely. You are talking to a European who grew up on Karl May. We throw than term of endearment respectfully all over, lol. Seriously, why expect all members to be versed in everything, instead of pointing stuff out?

My antagonism is not towards feminism, but hysterics.

I hope the new threads will have same amount of entertainment, sans the hysterics.

PS - A sincere apology to Mme Macron!

The thread just became great again

I did, are you saying Karl May was the wrong education? 30 books read in vain?

And why so rude? Should I stay home for emotional scaring?

Thanks, kriss...lol. I love unintentional bad comedy.

Mr. President Trumps gets called names and nobody stays home for emotional damage.

Ah, Oprah Winfrey again:

"The controversy increased when Oprah Winfrey invited the Native American activist Suzan Harjo onto her show in 1992. Harjo said on the show that "squaw is an Algonquin Indian word meaning vagina." As a result of these claims, some Native people have taken to spelling the word sq***, or calling it the "s-word" (Bright n.d.). This purported etymology has been widely adopted as the rationale for removing the word from maps, road signs, history books, and other public uses (Adams 2000).
However, according to Ives Goddard, the curator and senior linguist in the anthropology department of the Smithsonian Institution, this statement is not true (Bright n. d.; Goddard 1997). The word was borrowed as early as 1621 from the Massachusett word squa (Cutler 1994; Goddard 1996, 1997), one of many variants of the Proto-Algonquian *eθkwe·wa[10] (Goddard 1997); in those languages it meant simply "young woman." Although Algonquian linguists and historians (e.g. Goddard 1997, Bruchac 1999) have rejected Harjo's proposed etymology, it has been repeated (without citing etymologies) by several journalists and the entertainer Oprah Winfrey."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw

lol, the s-word.

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Thanks, Pilatus. So Karl May had it right, and I have not wasted reading 30 books and some awesome dreams. Glad to know.

Mme Macron - back to square one, it really means what I and millions of fellow countrymen have thought, a young woman (aka chick - so a compliment, really). I do prefer linguists to Oprah, to be honest.

I am glad we ran into this. Never thought group think takes it so far, in language policing. Oprah seems to make a footprint in dictionaries.

What - the only insulting person was you. As if a kneejerk insults were ok since they come from misunderstanding? Sounds weird from a PC advocate.

I accept your apology

I in fact think Macron's wife deserves more attention than him, but that's irrelevant.

http://www.karlmayusa.com/

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/squaw

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/squaw

Nyah, wishful thinking

People really use it back home, it is a direct reference to books we all read.

It is good to know.

Wishful thinking? That's very sad. So, everyone learns something. Perhaps.

I honestly didn't know that there was any controversy around it myself. I haven't seen or heard it in decades, (besides Squaw Valley) and even then it was only in some books as a kid. James Fenimore Cooper probably..

Actually I guess MC was referring to Winnetou by Karl May. Every home had it, back home too*. The last of the Mohicans was extremely popular in the 80s (and probably in the 70s) too.

* First thing you notice when you are a child is what kind of books do people have in their homes. Right, it used to be like this.

An odd choice of term to describe Mme Macron, if that's what you thought it meant.