• Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
      92·
      3 个月前

      “Many such cases”, “bigly”, “very, very large brain”, “good genes”, “This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever” and “and some, I assume, are good people” have involuntary become part of my vocabulary.

    • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      65·
      3 个月前

      China pronounced as “jina”

      “Fake news” (ironically)

      “Worst blank in the history of blank, maybe ever”

      Also fuck Trump. Should’ve been 3 inches more accurate.

        • juliebean@lemm.ee
          13·
          3 个月前

          i don’t think he coined that one, though he is terrifically old, so maybe he did 75 plus years ago, idk. i’m sure he would happily take credit for it if it got people to pay attention to him.

          • can@sh.itjust.works
            6·
            3 个月前

            According to the New York Times, the phrase it is what it is appeared as early as an 1949 article by J.E. Lawrence in The Nebraska State Journal. Lawrence used the phrase when describing the difficulty faced during frontier-era life in Nebraska:

            “New land is harsh, and vigorous, and sturdy. It scorns evidence of weakness. There is nothing of sham or hypocrisy in it. It is what it is, without apology.”

            It is what it is picked up steam in the 21st Century. A 2004 USA Today article by Gary Mihoces, titled “It is what it is,” pointed out that the phrase had become popular in sports about losses. Mihoces cited over a dozen examples of athletes and coaches using the phrase in that year alone.

            Dictionary.com

            • juliebean@lemm.ee
              1·
              3 个月前

              yep, which is why i said more than 75 years ago. he’d’ve had to have coined it prior to the publication of that article.

      • Huschke@lemmy.world
        6·
        3 个月前

        I also use Jina now and it really bothers me, but I can’t pronounce it correctly anymore. He ruined me.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      22·
      3 个月前

      “Tested negatively, that is, positively towards negative, tested perfectly”

      It’s funny because I remember being confused by the terms when I was a kid. To see a president worry about it was bonkers.

    • CrystalRainwater@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      15·
      3 个月前

      I regularly say “Art of the deal” ironically when I observe someone win in a low stakes negotiation. I guess that’s also kinda it’s always sunny but it’s definitely trumpian as well

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      3 个月前

      • very legal very cool (how he describes his business dealings with Russia)

      • so amazing + will never forget (what he wrote in the Holocaust museum visitors book)

    • androogee (they/she)@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 个月前

      (Note that every answer is someone intentionally using a phrase to make fun of him, not unknowingly using a phrase because of “how much he impacted the language” )

      (Okay now that I think about it, I guess people who don’t know wouldn’t be answering the question, but I still think that the premise is silly)