crash blossoms: mentalist MC of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner guessed the name of expectant press secretary’s baby’s name seconds before shooting—via Super Punch
akte x: a German expression to file something away, to bring a matter to conclusion from the Latin ad ฤcta
a show of swords: direct democracy on display in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden
cartel: the United Arab Emirates to quit OPEC after a sixty year membership
euromaxxing: Hungary’s turn around—via Quantum of Sollazzo
clausal stacking tolerance: a new test to parse the limits of lexical ambiguity—see previously
lihop, mihop: the language of manufactured crises and phoney outrage (now and then), the tone set by an individual vying for the Nobel Peace Prize yet threatening to destroy civilisations and celebrated the deaths of Rob Reiner and Robert Muller
