Berlin per Rad im Sep 2024 geplant!
Subject: Aus der SZ-App: „Berlin ist ein riesiges Freilichtmuseum der Industriekultur“
Artikelempfehlung aus der SZ-App:
„Berlin ist ein riesiges Freilichtmuseum der Industriekultur“
Einst galt die Stadt als die modernste Metropole Europas. Noch heute zeugen prachtvolle Industriebauten davon. Diese lassen sich hervorragend erkunden – nun auch mit dem Fahrrad.
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Kel Richards’ Ozword of the Day: “Flubs”
We are all familiar with the verbal problems that President Joe Biden is struggling with. I have written here in the past about the train wreck of a televised debate he had with Donald Trump. A debate so disastrous that it has driven his own political party to call on him to drop out of the presidential race.
Since then he did a prime-time TV interview with George Stephanopoulos to try to set the record straight, but that just increased the damage.
Now a lovely word has emerged for these ‘verbal irregularities’ coming out of Joe Biden’s mouth—they are being called ‘flubs.’
If you Google ‘Biden’s flubs’ you will be offered endless commentary (and plenty of videos) coving the issue.
The word ‘flub’ is an American colloquialism, first recorded in 1924. The Oxford defines the verb ‘to flub’ as meaning ‘to botch or bungle.’ The Merriam-Webster says much the same—the word means: ‘to perform or deal with in a blundering manner: make a botch of; fail at.’
The Oxford does not know where the word comes from, and so offers us the unhelpful note of ‘origin unknown.’
Some have guessed that it started out as a comic variation on ‘blunder’—perhaps with bits of the words ‘fluff’ and ‘flop’ woven into it.
My own guess is that certain sounds convey certain ideas and these words starting with ‘fl-’ just suggest stumbling into a mistake. Somehow those sounds convey the notion of a flow that is interrupted and doesn’t happen as it should.
One other verbal note: a person who ‘flubs’ often can become known as ‘flubber.’
But that word has a second meaning, because it was used in a 1961 Walt Disney movie with Fred MacMurray (The Absent Minded Professor) as the name for a new substance ‘floating rubber’—contracted to ‘flubber.’
But in Joe Biden’s case, there is no floating rubber in sight, just a ‘flubber’ and can’t seem to stop ‘flubbing.’
Today the latest issue of The Spectator Australia is out — including my ‘Language’ column on the history of the placename ‘Palestine.
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