The de-facto neutering of NATO and division between allies has made Putin very happy. Trumpski took the 4k troops out of Syria several times. Would have given Putin a huge victory. Each time Deep State prevented that.
The usual English term ‘dehydrase’ for an enzyme dehydrating a substrate was changed to dehydratase, because Dehydrase in German…means a dehydrogenating enzyme rather than an enzyme splitting off water.
They all try to demonstrate that language is more than just the assembling of context-free words using semantics-free rules
In a letter to the editor referring to an earlier piece about names that were difficult to pronounce or spell (J.C. Furnas, In the Names We Go By, , Dec. 28, 1957) the writer suggests: "How could J. C. Furnas write a piece about namesmanship and not mention Lake Chargoggaggoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaug near Webster, Mass.? Sissies call it Webster Lake.