Retired English teacher evaluates Trump's meeting with the NYT in pungent letter to the editor

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/mikiebarb/status/801765811878760448

[lillypaddle]

1. Doesn't pungent

mean having a sharp taste or smell? Sorry to be picky, but it makes no sense in this context.

However, K&R for the OP article.

[oberliner]

3. Pungent: (of comment, criticism, or humor) having a sharp and caustic quality.

"Pungent remarks" are comments that are sharp and caustic.

[lillypaddle]

4. Learn something new everyday

never heard it used that way. Thanks.

[oberliner]

6. No problem

I love learning new words or alternate definitions of words I think I know!

[world wide wally]

14. Maybe she means that his answers stink

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[annabanana]

5. teachers rock!. . . .n/t

[Sophiegirl]

7. Particularly...

This teacher

[Ligyron]

8. We don't need an English teacher to make that fact painfully apparent.

But it helps make it official.

[baldguy]

20. Now we just need the press to state the obvious.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. I kept gagging when I heard The Donhole's remarks about Ben Carson ...

OK, Carson is a twerp, but Captain Carotene keeps using words without knowing what they really mean. "Pathological" basically means diseased, and he kept spewing out lines like this:

"He said he has pathological disease. Now if you're pathological, there's no cure for that, folks, okay? There's no cure for that," Trump said.

Um. If NO disease could be cured, then yes, something pathological would be incurable. That's not the reality, but that doesn't derail his tirade. He just keeps repeating the misusage over and over, apparently believing that makes it right.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/13/pathological-definitely-doesnt-mean-what-donald-trump-thinks-it-means/

[awoke_in_2003]

17. Captain Carotene?

I love it

[Zambero]

10. And furthermore

Students who were too lazy or detached to complete their assignments and learn the material were NOT rewarded by being elected class president. Back then anyway.

[grantcart]

11. He has had more conversations with Putin than

security briefings since becoming PE.

This is not going to end well.

[2naSalit]

12. yup.

[world wide wally]

15. This is why we could use a special investigative agency to dig not things like this...

Like a Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Hey wait!

[progressoid]

13. One could say the same of his supporters.

[BSdetect]

16. He's in now and only some miracle can stop him destroying this country and possible the human race.

Waiting for Paul Ryan to stand up to him?

Hilarious.

[LuckyLib]

18. In her nice English teacher way, she's saying

he's a master bullshitter. Gobbledygook. His stock in trade. Wish more people would challenge him: "What does that mean?" "That doesn't make sense!" He has to tweet and video to keep from being backed into a corner.

[alp227]

19. link to online version

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/opinion/donald-trump-at-the-times-did-he-bend.html