It's hard to keep all those African countries straight, as President Trump demonstrated in a speech to African leaders at the U.N.:
Mr. Trump continues to create jobs in broadcast comedy, even for workers normally employed in other industries:
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I hope you appreciate the wisdom of the new policy on naming hurricanes that was announced here on September 11. The latest brutal storm to devastate the islands of the eastern Caribbean would not have been named for the mother of Jesus; it would have been named "Hurricane Malaria." That's more like it. Nasty names for nasty stuff. You know it makes sense.
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Article in South China Morning Post (9/19/17) by Jasmine Siu:
"Activist fined HK$3,000 for binning Hong Kong public library books in ‘fight against cultural invasion’ from mainland China: Alvin Cheng Kam-mun, 29, convicted of theft over dumping of books printed in simplified Chinese characters"
A radical Hong Kong activist was on Tuesday fined HK$3,000 for dumping library books in a bin in what he said was an attempt to protect children from the “cultural invasion” of simplified Chinese characters.
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It's Talk Like A Pirate Day again, but I've got nothing to add to our past coverage:
"R!", 11/03/2003
"Type like a pirate day", 9/9/2004
"R!?", 9/19/2005
"Type like a pirate", 9/18/2006
"Pirate R as I-R-eland", 9/20/2006
"Powarrr law", 9/20/2006
"Post like a pirate", 9/19/2007
"R", 9/9/2008
"Said the Pirate King, Aaarrrf", 9/27/2010
"R R R", 9/19/2012
Tweeted yesterday by the magazine Bon Appétit (which is apparently not the same as the restaurant management company):
The average millennial spends $96 billion on food. Here's how we break it down https://t.co/VoUan99Tbq pic.twitter.com/nYr7c2Yfan
— Bon Appétit (@bonappetit) September 18, 2017
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One of yesterday's Google Doodles commemorates Samuel Johnson's 308th birthday:
A partially-transcribed digital edition can be found here. The lexicographer entry is here (transcribed) and here (page scan):
Tattoo on the shoulder of a marcher in Charlottesville on Saturday, August 12:
Source: "A lot of white supremacists seem to have a weird Asian fetish," Vice News, Dexter Thomas (9/12/17)
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A tweet by Alex Gabuev:
"Patriarch's residence" is "Male chauvinist village." This translation is obviously a part of joint effort to subvert international order pic.twitter.com/A5DFS5pz6d
— Alexander Gabuev (@AlexGabuev) September 13, 2017
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Alex Baumans writes:
Perhaps no news to you, but I just discovered that the new Range Rover model is called the Velar. I wonder if the Uvular will be next.
To be followed by the Range Rover Pharyngeal and the Range Rover Glottal. (Or maybe a hybrid version called the Range Rover Labiovelar?)
And Jeep could fight back with the Jeep Ergative and the Jeep Grand Optative…
