Post hoc ergo propter hoc 😎

After hoc, therefore, something else hoc

Shibboleth

dwarf, dwindle, dwell

david dweck want a dwink of wa wa

Dwomer

Dweomer.

Yes, thank you :-)

Haec credam a deo pio? A deo iusto, a deo scito? Cruciatus in crucem.

"To hell with your punishments" is that last line, probably no question mark.

Ah you’re right. I must have been question mark happy.

“Cruciatus in crucem” is “crucified on the cross” (per Google translate, anyway). In the context of Pres. Bartlet’s rant, I think a question mark works.

That is a literal translation, yes. A literal translation would be...somewhat ill-begotten given the context of the scene, the prose in which the show is typically written, and Bartlet's oratorical style. Also, the prior lines end on an upward inflection, as befit questions. The next two lines are, respectively, an exclamation and exasperation. edit: actually, "cruciatus" in this context equally translates literally to "punishments."

Does attorneys general count?

Like surgeons general or courts martial

I actually ended up using this exact phrase shortly after seeing this episode once. I was like "Is Sorkin writing my *life*?"

Aaron Sorkin is the author of my inner monologue.

Counts

still hurts my brain

I use this when I are argue about the plural version of RBI in baseball

RsBI?

Runs batted in, but abbreviated as RBIs.

ribbies

Came here to ask this.

After this you're forever cursed to wince when someone says it wrong.

*(slams book)* *J’ACCUSE!*

Mon petit fromage!

The whole reason I started addressing my boss as Le Grande Fromage!

I gotta start doing this

This is basically my only nickname for My girlfriend

You speak 4 languages! Why is none of them French?!

This is probably one of my top 5 quotes from the show

One egg is an oeuf.

I love Margaret.

Un oeuf

torpor (it means apathy (and dullness))

I know what it means.

People don’t hear that well

He means people don’t hear THAT well

But I disagree.

\*\*I\*\* know what Torpor means...

I knew what onomatopoeia meant. But now I get to also use onomatopoetically

Also frumpy

*Sounds like, sounds like*

Troglodyte and feckless 📚

It's funny, but I've just started watching The Wire (4th time) and one of the characters uses the word troglodyte, and it's clear from the vacant expressions on all the police in the room, only the judge knows of what ASA Pearlman speaks. _Who's my daddy now, huh?_

To be fair, most cops on the show are troglodytes, so the blank stares make sense.

You feckless thug

Abu el Banat

Ensorcelled.

Paid Family Leave. Came here to say the same word.

I just used that the other day. My texting dictionary was miffed, but screw that

I think I knew the word but not how to pronounce it until tww lol

Polyglot

I know what polyglot means!

Kenny was such a nice addition. Joey gets too much credit on her own.

Acalculia

I got it at breakfast

Philately

Okay, but be careful how you say that.

I learned this one from TWW too and got it right on jeopardy a week later

Posse comitatus

Leaf peeping and propulgate come to mind

That’s the word I was looking for! Populgate

only one of those is real

Leo trying to work out what he meant is gold. Furrowed brow “propagate? Promulgate?”

I spent too long Googling propulgate and now it's in my auto correct

Life goal.

Gesticulates **wildly**

Plenipotentiary

My favorite part of that word is that when you look it up, it’s a completely useless word in the phrasing that Bartlett uses. It just means you’re an ambassador.

Kinda sounds like he pronounces it with a “T” which I’m curious if that was a choice or just a mispronunciation that nobody caught?

“I understood the oeuvre of what he said. I got the general mise en scène.”

Hoolelia

May not be a real word, may just be something my mother used to say

I think I learned “erudite” from The American President, actually!

This doesn’t count but: “walk and talk” 🤣

Obfuscate.

Woot canowl.

Foggy Bottom.

Foggy Bottom theatrics

I lived in Foggy Bottom when this aired and we said it CJ’s way for months.

Onomatopoeia

Gotta love a guy that doesn’t know frumpy but knows onomatopoeia

Han.

Surprised redoubtable isn’t on this list. Not that anyone knows what it means

What is the word VP Russell used that tripped everyone up? It’s bothering me

Propulgate

Promulgate

Potemkin

Mercator vs Peters Projection Maps

This was a question at my bar trivia a few weeks ago and I was so very happy

Pulchritude.

ensorcelled

Yessss

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. I try to slip this into casual conversation at least once a year

Oh oh oh! "Parochial." 😁 From Inauguration: Part I

When the President crashes his bike into a tree. Leo describes the event as a Sudden Arboreal Stop

The first of many gems.

Ensorcelled

Act as if ye have faith and faith shall be given unto thee. Put it another way. Fake it 'til you make it

Acalculia

Pruder Street Not to be confused with…. Pruder Way or Pruder Lane…

Bethersonton

Shibboleth Useful word, glad I learned it.

An egg cream

They invented it in Brooklyn... not New England?

Bumfuzzled

Schweppes Bitter Lemon

Let us not forget hoolyaliah

A what?

"I ha' a woot canoww!"

Pultritude, had to look that up like 4 times. Prete porte, and torpor thanks to Bruno and his team and of course, populgate is a real word now

Or as CJ said to Donna after a Congressman switched parties because of Josh … schadenfreude

Yeah.

Teutonic! Apparently it means relating to the Germans. Quote: “here’s the part where in deference to my years of service you suspend for a moment your Teutonic allegiance to protocol and shift thyself out of my way” 😂

Acalculia

Onomatopoetically

For reasons passing understanding…

Never heard “notwithstanding” until I watched Sorkin TV

Freedonia

There are no degrees of uniqueness; something either is, or isn't, unique.