Trump hectored the "great people of Canada" Monday morning, encouraging them to cede their borders and make HIM their president by becoming the 51st state.
Sorry… is hectoring supposed to be heckling? Trump is the hector in this case; he can’t make Canada the hector. When the first non-proper-noun word out of a writer’s keyboard is that far off what they meant, I have difficulty taking anything else they write as anything but regurgitated vaguely understood hearsay.
Oh I wasn’t saying it was a good movie. It does have a greased up Brad Pitt flying through the air stabbing dudes with a spear though. Sometimes that’s all you need from a film.
Sorry… is hectoring supposed to be heckling? Trump is the hector in this case; he can’t make Canada the hector. When the first non-proper-noun word out of a writer’s keyboard is that far off what they meant, I have difficulty taking anything else they write as anything but regurgitated vaguely understood hearsay.
It is most definitely a word, and its usage here is fine.
I never said it wasn’t a word; it means bully. But hectored doesn’t mean bullied the way we use that in English—it would mean to create a bully.
Nope. It’s an out-of-use term, but it is definitely a synonym of bullying.
The link to the “ing” version in their first link does support the use in the article. TIL also.
Ackshually it’s only Hectoring if you drag them behind your chariot, otherwise it’s just sparkling heckling.
That reminds me, Troy deserves a rewatch soon. Love those fight scenes.
Isn’t that movie notoriously terrible?
For whoever is interested in reading it, I quite liked the Peter Green translation. Fair warning though, it’s quite long, longer than the Odyssey.
Oh I wasn’t saying it was a good movie. It does have a greased up Brad Pitt flying through the air stabbing dudes with a spear though. Sometimes that’s all you need from a film.
Hectoring is to act domineering, or to try to intimidate.