[Ads-l] implodement

[Joel Berson]

I can go with that. It suggests to me something that the GOP is doing to itself, using "-ment" to connote the process.  Related to "-ment" as "to denote the result or product of the action of the verb"?  "Implosion" leaves the agent uncertain.

Joel


      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 8:29 AM
 Subject: [ADS-L] implodement
   
A veteran Democratic NYC Congressman tells CNN of the coming "implodement
of the Republican Party."

JL

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