Monthly Archives: October 2016

International, Language

Oxford Dictionaries’ New Word For 2017: Duterte

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img_6552LONDON, United Kingdom (The Adobo Chronicles, Berlin Bureau) – A new word has been added to the Oxford Dictionaries’ 2017 edition.  That word is: duterte

Many will immediately think of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte when encountering this new word.  However, by definition, duterte is synonymous to hyperbole.

Here’s the new word entry that will appear in Oxford Dictionaries 2017 edition:

du.ter.te
doo-tear-tey
noun
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
synonyms: exaggeration, overstatement, magnification, embroidery, embellishment, excess, overkill, rhetoric.

If you play scrabble, make sure to keep this new word in mind. It’ll give you an advantage over your game opponents.

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Business, Food, Social Media

This Is All It Takes To Be The Number One Restaurant In America

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IMG_6543.PNGCHICAGO, Illinois (The Adobo Chronicles, Indianapolis Bureau) –  The verdict is in.  The top fine dining restaurant in all of America is in Chicago!  It’s called Alinea.

Alinea bested hundreds of other highly-rated restaurants  from San Francisco to New York, from New Orleans to Orlando.

The list was released by TripAdvisor, in its 2016 Travelers Choice award for restaurants.

Now we know it doesn’t really take that much to make it to the very top of restaurant favorites.

For Alinea, just a small green leaf sprinkled with what looks like sea salt, and a side of a very thin slice of lemon.

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Government, International, Politics

Trump: I Will Accept Election Loss If…

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Trump, left, and Goldberg

NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles, Washington Bureau) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump seems to be backing down from his earlier statements that he will accept the results of November’s elections only if he wins.

Today at 3 a.m, Trump took to his Twitter account to categorically state that he will accept his election loss if a President Hillary Clinton will appoint him U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines. (The current ambassador, Philip Goldberg, is stepping down this November.)

Just a day earlier, at the Al Smith Dinner in New York, Trump joked that Hillary would appoint him ambassador to Iraq or Afghanistan.

“I was joking about Iraq and Afghanistan,” Trump tweeted, “but I am dead serious about the Philippines.”

The Republican candidate said that with Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s recent pronouncement that he would “separate” from the U.S. and align himself with China and Russia, “being the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines would be such an honor and would allow me to be closer to my Chinese friends and to Vladimir Putin.”

When asked about Trump’s comments, Clinton said, “I will wait until we have the election results.  I will keep you in suspense.”

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