[Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 3 Mar 2018 to 4 Mar 2018 (#2018-62)

[Jonathan Lighter]

I either heard or coined "Trumpsplain" within the last few weeks.

It splains itself.

There's also "mansplain," used derisively by feminists.

JL

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:59 AM, Shawnee Moon <moon.shawnee at gmail.com> wrote:

> ~ “...I’m sure I’ve come across other attempts at
> X-splaining—“whitesplaining” (or “white-’splaining”) gets a number of hits
> and an urbandictionary entry--but two relatively novel ones in the same
> section of a newspaper seems like a sign.  Maybe Ben will remind me that
> the ATNW crew has already explored this culvert of lexicon valley but I
> trust new data points are always useful.”
>
> The “‘splain” I am most familiar with was frequently quoted by Ricky
> Ricardo when he scolded Lucy.
>
> “Looo-seeee!? Splain, Lucy!”
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