It is? I thought the stress was on the third syllable.
I’d say I’ve been pronouncing it wrong but let’s be honest, I’ve probably never spoken that word out loud.
Anapest Dei, qui tollis prosodiam mundi, dona nobis pedem.
On the few occasions that I’ve said it out loud, I’ve accented the first syllable.
Aside: it would be a great cat name.
In a couple of weeks when I want to revisit an interesting discussion of language, I don’t think the “Will Trump Kill Himself” thread is the first place I’m going to look.
That’s what I like about this place. We’re not just a bunch of internet Neanderthals beating up on each other, we’re a bunch of educated internet Neanderthals beating up on each other.
Coleridge to the rescue.
Trochee trips from long to short;
From long to long in solemn sort
Slow Spondee stalks, strong foot!, yet ill able
Ever to come up with Dactyl’s trisyllable.
Iambics march from short to long.
With a leap and a bound the swift Anapests throng.
One syllable long, with one short at each side,
Amphibrachys hastes with a stately stride –
First and last being long, middle short, Amphimacer
Strikes his thundering hoofs like a proud high-bred Racer.
(And the stress is on the first syllable of “anapest.”)
Heh, I was just making a snarky aside from the margins, I didn’t expect it to, like, turn into a whole thing.
If “Anapest” is a good cat name perhaps you could get a dog named “IANApest”. Who’d be much less trouble. 
It’s getting legit weird that Trump has been radio-silent and off social media for 72 hours without using, you know, the enormous TV studio in his residence that is dedicated to facilitating him speaking directly to the people.
Either he’s being restrained, or scared, or confused, or is figuring out another “release the Kraken” move.
At a minimum I’m sure he’s horse-trading with the cabinet as well as Senate Republicans to undermine any 25th-Amendment initiative as well as impeachment. I hope someone’s got the tapes rolling, but these greasy toads have a remarkable talent for circling the wagons even after they’ve abused and betrayed each other.
I hope he’s deeply sedated.
Yeah, I’m starting to wonder if @LSLGuy is right about someone tricking him into thinking he’s actually tweeting.
That’s be great. And it would be exceedingly simple to have an AI that would auto-respond to his every tweet.
You’re so right!
God bless our President
Fuck the libs
For a moment I entertained the idea that the social-media staffer has just started saying “Sir, I’ve just sent that amazing tweet, and goodness, already 1200 retweets in 2 minutes! You’re certainly owning the libs and very popular!”
But, like everyone else, I forget he’s not just on Twitter, he’s mainlining Fox News 24x7. He knows what’s going on, and he could phone in a statement at any time.
He may very well be so obsessed with getting back online that it’s crowded out every single competing thought. I wouldn’t put it past an enraged narcissist like him. I’m sure his enablers and hangers-on are happy to keep that distraction stoked and burning.
To the contrary, with current technology it would be extremely difficult to simulate the typical positive responses to his tweets. It would require a whole new research paradigm, since all the R&D focus so far has been toward developing artificial intelligence.
That’s the beauty of it. No real intelligence is required, just a list of fifty or so canned phrases to cycle through. I highly doubt he’ll even notice the repetition and if he does, just add some ELIZA coding to bonce his own phrases back at him.
Yeah. AI is a genuinely hard problem. Whereas artificial stupidity is dirt simple.
Instead of the Turing test I guess it would be the Tuscoops test.
You see, we’re going through withdrawal too. And at the worst possible time, Schadenfreude time. Won’t somebody please hack the security video feed in the White House so we can see him melting down?
As any infantryman will tell you, the most dangerous time in a battle is when you’ve just lost contact with the enemy. You know they’re nearby, you know they’re angry, and you no longer know where they are are or what they’re doing.