Talk:Covfefe/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Displaced citation

I’ve removed the only claim attributed to this source, but it may be useful for something else (though I’m not personally familiar with Heavy):

Jessica McBride (May 31, 2017). "Donald Trump & 'Covfefe' Tweet: What Did He Mean?". Heavy.com.

—151.132.206.250 (talk) 00:52, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Linguistic triumphs

I’ve removed the following line from the article because the source is clearly mocking Trump’s language, and as written here, it misleadingly comes across as sincere. I’m unable to find a secondary source commenting on this piece, and I worry it would be considered original research for WP editors to interpret an author’s intent and declare it sarcastic, so I’m leaving it here for the time being.

Journalist Tom Nicholson put covfefe as number one in a top-five list of Donald Trump's "linguistic triumphs" in a December 2018 article for Esquire, with the story's byline being "It's hard to imagine a dictionary without 'covfefe' in it now."

—151.132.206.250 (talk) 17:09, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Yiddish

Someone needs to update with the well documented Yiddish word for "pointless search." Unless you guys are antisemitic. 2600:387:C:6D35:0:0:0:6 (talk) 23:28, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

It is not a Yiddish word, that was a dumb meme that some of his fan club tried to float to cover up for a simple typo. Zaathras (talk) 23:59, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Might wanna check your facts. Bit of googling got me to this compilation of made-up etymologies, which says about the one you cite: The fact-checkers at Snopes, among others, have debunked these utterly false etymologies line by line. […] And it definitely doesn’t come from the Hebrew kabfefe referring to some “mystical butterfly.” —151.132.206.250 (talk) 17:13, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Kerfuffle

I'm surprised no one explicitly suggest it was a typo or mishearing for kerfuffle - though it is hinted at in the citation for Ref 10. -- Steve -- (talk) 15:05, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Speculation is that it was a typo, yes, but we'd need adequate sourcing to include that in the article. It likely was meant to be "coverage," but the sentence cuts off there without completing the thought, so we will never know the actual intended word. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 16:41, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

OK I Since he doesn't use that word elsewhere that makes sense. However, I don't think he uses the word 'coverage' much either. I understand you want extern al sources. It will be another unsolved mystery. Regards -- Steve -- (talk) 22:06, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Nonsense

It is possible that covfefe could mean nonsense. It is very obviously a nonsense word 23emr (talk) 20:42, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Is there something you wish to add to the article? The lede already notes that it isn't a real word, as a likely misspelling or typo. Zaathras (talk) 22:49, 1 February 2023 (UTC)