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[Mark Mandel]

It's already here :

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/outstupid

(transitive, informal) To surpass in stupidity.

*Last edited 1 year ago by Einstein2*


On Mar 5, 2018 11:28 PM, "Mark Mandel" <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's already here:
>
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/outstupid
>
> (transitive, informal) To surpass in stupidity.
>
> *Last edited 1 year ago by Einstein2*
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> Mark
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> On Mar 5, 2018 8:52 PM, "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> Stupid that you can do we can do stupider/We can do anything stupider
>> than you.
>> We now await, with bated laptop fingers, the arrival of the transitive
>> verb “to outstupid”.
>>
>> LH
>>
>> > On Mar 5, 2018, at 8:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Already topped by Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European
>> Commission:
>> >
>> > "So now we will also impose import tariffs.This is basically a stupid
>> > process.... But we have to do it. ... We can also do stupid. We also
>> have
>> > to be this stupid."
>> >
>> > Note idiom "do stupid."
>> >
>> >
>> > JL
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:32 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.”
>> >> —Tweet by…do you have to ask?
>> >>
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