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...codes and you sure as heck shouldn’t be POTUS.” Similar mockery has greeted his previous linguistic fumbles, not least the notorious “unpresidented”, which was picked by some as 2016’s word of the year. It took Trump and his team 87 minutes to fix the word "unpresidented." pic.twitter.com/Bz7NxSqwlo — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 17, 2016 It’s easy...

...code: looking after his infant son. The government narrative was that Cummings should actually be deserving of our respect for this, and that those criticising him should be berated for not showing the same devotion to their own families. The journey to Durham immediately became a symbol of hypocrisy, undermining the clear story that the government had earlier been trying...

...simple to learn, not tied to any one nation or culture, and could thus help unite rather than divide humanity. As “international auxiliary languages” go, Esperanto has been very successful. At its peak, its speakers numbered in the millions, and although exact estimates are very difficult to make, even today up to a million people still use it. It has an expansive...