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President-elect Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Friday to complain that the American flag will be flown at half-staff for his inauguration due to the period of mourning for the recently deceased former President Jimmy Carter.

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[-] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In America.

Edit: it looks like it's time to school some Americans on English, a particularly easy task.

Let's start with the definition from the Merriam-Webster dictionary, descendant of arguably the definitive American dictionary, certainly one of the first, created by Noah Webster.

  1. A slender vertical or nearly vertical structure (such as an upright post in various cranes).

Now, from the American Heritage dictionary.

  1. A vertical pole.

Going farther field, from the Cambridge dictionary.

A pole that holds a flag.

Note that both the Merriam-Webster and Cambridge dictionaries list half-mast as related phrases.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

This is an article about two presidents of the United States.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Using a dictionary to prove two words are similar is not relevant here. The American terminology is half-staff not half-mast.

If you had done even some basic research on American flag ceremony and the terminology we use, you wouldn't be so confidently incorrect on the subject.

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