Posted on 09/07/2010 3:22:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
To "refudiate" or not to "refudiate." Merriam-Webster has declared Sarah Palin's made-up verb its 2010 "Word of Summer." The respected publisher says the pseudo word is the one most-often searched by users of its online dictionary.
Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska, used it twice in July, once on a news show and later in a Twitter posting where she called on peaceful Muslims to "refudiate" the plan to build a mosque near ground zero in Lower Manhattan.
Palin deleted the non-word, replacing it with another tweet, saying "peaceful New Yorkers" should "refute the Ground Zero mosque plan." Uh, maybe she meant repudiate? In an effort to put an end to the razzing she was getting, she posted yet again, arguing that the whole contretemps was Shakespearian. "'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!" We can thank George W. Bush for "misunderestimated," while President Obama gave us wee-wee'd up.
Other summer favorites from Merriam-Webster, sayeth the AP, include "inception" and "despicable," both from summer movies, and "opulent" to describe Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
The MSM doesn’t get it. Propaganda always works but when it comes to SARAH, it doesn’t. Two years later they are still at it.
How about Barry’s “Corpse-Man” malaprop?
All else aside, it REALLY irritates me when supposedly educated people, especially those with “Ivy league” credentials, cannot use simple words and phrases properly or use words that do not exist.
That’s our girl!
-PJ
If you're referring to Governor Palin, she didn't attend an "Ivy League" university. Unlike Mr. Obama, she had to pay her own way.
That is the only thing they have on her which is far better than the real mess the donkeys made out of the economy.
I don’t know if people realize this, but those jacks didn’t just pick the $787B figure out of the air when they decided on how much to spend on the porkulus. It is nearly equal to what was spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as of when the bill passed, and more if one considers additional legislation that added to it for a grand total of $862B (and counting - excluding interest).
They shouldn’t get all breathless about such things - sounds like someone needs a breathalyzer.
You do know that Sarah's "refudiate" was a Twitter typo, don't you? She didn't make the word up. It was an error that the MSM blew up in an attempt to embarrass her.
You do make a valid point, though, and I agree with it.
Obama's "corpse-man" would be my choice of an Ivy League linguistic failure. That one came straight out of his own mouth while he was reading a prepared text.
or gettin all “wee-weed up”.
“Irregardless”
It’s all Strategery I tell you.
Still like “cackle of rads”
Zeroastrianism: the narcissistic religion, founded by Barack Obama, that worships Barack Obama.
http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&tbo=p&q=refudiate&num=10
It is a word that ignorant people used in place of refute and repudiate.
Ugh, that is a non-word in common circulation that I first heard in the army.
I was making a generalization. I, in no way, meant it as a slight to Saint Sarah.
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