Posted on 07/23/2010 12:44:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I don't care much for Sarah Palin's politics, but I do like her word "refudiate." As I just typed the word, a squiggly red line appeared under it with a suggestion that I change the word to repudiate. Well, for the record, I repudiate that suggestion and refudiate it.
People who don't like political figures often make fun of their language.
H.L. Mencken said of a Warren G. Harding speech: "It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash." Jimmy Carter's enemies portrayed him as a hick from the sticks, not just because of his brother Billy, but for his Southern speech, including his pronunciation of nuclear.
It doesn't seem to matter whether you have a reputation as brainy and articulate.
John Kennedy's Harvard dialect created a cottage industry of comic impressionists. At the other end of the spectrum was George W. Bush, whose Bushisms were legion. Opponents of President Obama attack his use of language as elitist, professorial or passionless.
In other words, Palin stands in good company. And I stand with her.
What was her crime? She made up a new word --unintentionally perhaps, but it doesn't matter.
I once referred to a highly paid athlete as a godzillionaire. I meant to say gazillionaire, but when I caught myself, I realized my "mistake" was better: the athlete's wealth was ginormous, as big and monstrous as the Japanese icon Godzilla.
The words web and log gave birth to blog. The merger of gigantic and enormous gave us the increasingly popular ginormous, which I thought was a kid's malapropism until I read it on a billboard.
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The great lady would lend her name to the confusion of language, as when she meant to say pinnacle but referred to another character as "the very pineapple of politeness."
The gathering place of idiots: CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc.
At least Gov. Palin doesn’t think that there are 57 states, that Canada has a President and she certainly doesn’t need a teleprompter to talk to a classroom full of children.
I’m flummoxified !!
Obama is the stupidest president ever. Degrees or not. Refudiate that.
What’s the difference between refudiate and refute?
And she doesn’t make embarrassing postings on chat sites thinking nobody will ever see them.
Its all invenereal to me...
Refute - to contest, possibly prove wrong . Refudiate - just like “Commentate” used by Obama’s constituency when the word ‘comment’ should be used. A commentator is just a bullshit word from ‘journolists’; the more appropriate form of describing a twit on TV talking about things they don’t know anything about is “News Reader” just like the do in Britain.
It’s quite clear. Refudiate = repudiate + refute. :-)
Intelligence
Those familiar with microphones know that you have to soften your “P”’s when speaking in an amplified sound system.
His beliefs are elitist (and statist).
Obama's use of language is pedestrian, run-of-the-mill leftwing political cliches.
The press has been aching for anything out of Obama's mouth that they can pretend is Lincolnesque.
He's given them absolutely nothing they can work with with a straight face.
Good, I'm glad -- is he going to give credit where credit is due then, since this word was used YEARS earlier than Gov. Palin's most recent use?
Nothing; in the Austrian language.
Refudiate is a perfectly cromulent word.
We gotta stop all this racialistic prejudism and learn to harmonate as one American peoples.
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