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Lawrence O’Donnell: Sarah Palin is ruining the English language (Much ado about 'refudiate')
Hotair ^ | 11/18/2010 | Cubachi

Posted on 11/18/2010 12:30:47 PM PST by WebFocus

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To: WebFocus

At least she doesnt get memorial day and veterans day mixed up, knows how to say corpsman and knows that “Austrian” isnt a langauge.


21 posted on 11/18/2010 12:39:45 PM PST by blasater1960 (Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
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To: WebFocus

Who is Lawrence O’Donnell?? Some dictionary-user?


22 posted on 11/18/2010 12:39:45 PM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Stosh
The last time I checked, “refudiate” was in fact considered poor usage in all 57 states, but it is allowed if you’re speaking Brazilian.

How about Austrian? :^)

23 posted on 11/18/2010 12:40:00 PM PST by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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To: madison10

And Sarah Palin doesn’t say “corpse-man” like that idiot Obama did when referring to the Marine Corps.


24 posted on 11/18/2010 12:40:00 PM PST by roadcat
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To: WebFocus

Lawrence O’Donnell, otherwise known as the “Proud Socialist” is once again proving what idiots the left truly are. I just love watching these morons spew their hate, hopefully they will eventually explode riding us all of their stupidity


25 posted on 11/18/2010 12:41:26 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: TheThinker

The left’s “redefinition” of words is straight from their ideological “father”.

The best way to shut down a leftist in an argument is to make them define the terms that they are using. Either they can’t, or they won’t, or they end up admitting how opposed to individual freedom they actually are.


26 posted on 11/18/2010 12:42:31 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: WebFocus
"next they will be demanding that cartographers actually move Russia even closer to Sarah Palin house"

Apparently he can't tell the difference between Tina Fey's skit and Sarah Palin's actual quote.

Tina Fey: "I can see Russia from my house."

Sarah Palin: "They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."

Geographical fact: Ostra Ratmanova in Russia is 2.4 miles away from the village of Diomede in Alaska.

27 posted on 11/18/2010 12:42:31 PM PST by wideawake
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To: Sarah Barracuda

ridding I mean, damn keyboard


28 posted on 11/18/2010 12:42:42 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: WebFocus

Language is like a snapshot in time.

The English we use today is very different than in the past.


29 posted on 11/18/2010 12:43:02 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: roadcat

I’ve thought about it for a while, and I think “corpse-man” was a verbal middle finger to the Marines.


30 posted on 11/18/2010 12:43:29 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: WebFocus
Headline: "Lewis Carroll ruined the English language, says slithy socialist"

Portmanteau words are derived by combining portions of two or more separate words. From an Internet source.

It was Lewis Carroll in Through The Looking Glass who coined the word portmanteau to describe them. In the book Humpty Dumpty explains that: "Well, 'slithy' means 'lithe and slimy'. 'Lithe' is the same word as 'active'. You see, it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed into one word." Among several other words Carroll created chortle (a combination of 'chuckle' and 'snort') and galumph ( a combination of 'gallop' and 'triumph').

31 posted on 11/18/2010 12:44:01 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Stosh

Obama: “Brazilian? Is that what comes after ‘trillion’?”


32 posted on 11/18/2010 12:44:24 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: WebFocus
So who the hell can we pin the blame on for such American english gems such as:

Sho' nuff
dubs
Don't be ...
Ofay!
Fo sho
stacks
cheese
donkey punch

Do I get to blame a political party or some other group of idiots for coming up with this vocabulary bilgewater?

33 posted on 11/18/2010 12:44:46 PM PST by Centurion2000 (WTH happened to my country?? I joined the Marines and defended the USA and it degenerates into this?)
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To: WebFocus

Lawrence, nobody asked you, because NOBODY WATCHES YOUR SHOW! So, go pray to your statue of Karl Marx and STFU.


34 posted on 11/18/2010 12:45:00 PM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Centurion2000

Q: What is “fee fi fo, fi fo, fi fo”?
A: Mike Tyson’s phone number.


35 posted on 11/18/2010 12:46:12 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: WebFocus
Let's include the word "Corpseman" in the dictionary too.

Its definition? "A leader who was elected to office by wholesale trickery and race pandering, but finds himself wandering the halls alone, with the populace having found out he is but a fraud. Ex: The corpseman could only watch and shake his head as his advisers and cabinet retired en masse."

36 posted on 11/18/2010 12:49:59 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: WebFocus

Oh how soon the mediaPUKES forget the “weeweed up” word from President LOSER obama! GET A FREAKING GRIP YOU STUPID MEDIAwhores!!


37 posted on 11/18/2010 12:52:10 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: WebFocus

Yeah. Horrible. Kinda like “corpse” for “corps”.


38 posted on 11/18/2010 12:55:05 PM PST by FrdmLvr (Death to tyrants)
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To: WebFocus

A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
by Mark Twain

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s”, and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which “c” would be retained would be the “ch” formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform “w” spelling, so that “which” and “one” would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish “y” replasing it with “i” and Iear 4 might fiks the “g/j” anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez “c”, “y” and “x” — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais “ch”, “sh”, and “th” rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.


39 posted on 11/18/2010 12:56:54 PM PST by onedoug
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

Imaginating, as in, “I’m not imaginating.”.

“Obama’s attempts to revive the economy have failed. I’m not imaginating.”


40 posted on 11/18/2010 1:00:58 PM PST by budwiesest (It's that girl from Alaska, again.)
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