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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 03:37 PM
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Palin's 'refudiate' named a Word of the Year
Source: USA Today

The staff of the New Oxford American Dictionary has named "refudiate" - former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's mashup of "refute" and "repudiate" - as the 2010 Word of the Year, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

The news organization quotes the staff as saying:

"From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used 'refudiate,' we have concluded that neither 'refute' nor 'repudiate' seems consistently precise, and that 'refudiate' more or less stands on its own, suggesting a general sense of 'reject.' "

Read more: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/11/palins-refudiate-named-a-word-of-the-year/1
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NRaleighLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 03:39 PM
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1. amazing how it is all about enabling her....
when ignorance = creativity, you know we are in really bad situation!
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 03:53 PM
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2. It's a beautiful portmanteau word.
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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 05:21 PM
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8. It seems to make some people frumious.
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Le Taz Hot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 09:04 AM
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32. And it speaks of the Pompitous of Love . . .
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October Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 04:00 PM
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3. Unreal. And EVERY "liberal" or left-leaning web site has at least 2 photos/stories of her
Ugh!

TPM, Huffington -- Every picture is a republican. It's nauseating at times.
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savalez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 05:02 PM
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5. +1
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Evasporque Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 04:24 PM
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4. I can honestly say I will...
NEVER USE THIS WORD FOR AS LONG AS I HAVE BREATH.
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savalez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 05:02 PM
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6. This is madness!
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Lifelong Protester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 05:17 PM
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7. Why does every group seem to want to enable her?
Why is ignorance something to be celebrated? Why?

(I am asking rhetorically... please no refuting or repudiating...)
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golfguru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 10:40 PM
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26. She has magnetic personality /nt
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Lifelong Protester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 10:02 PM
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34. Well, magnets can repulse... which is what she does for me
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golfguru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-10 08:51 PM
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36. Dat true /nr
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Kurska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 05:23 PM
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9. I am so sick of hearing about her.
She isn't intelligent, she isn't profound, she has contributed nothing to the American landscape that hasn't evolved from her ignorance (or in this case failure to grasp basic english).

Can she please just go away?
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Populist_Prole Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 06:36 PM
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10. It's more a malapropism, not a portmanteau
As usual, the media is confusing being ignorant in even a charming way with being clever. The woman is an illiterate jackass.
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ElboRuum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 08:01 PM
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16. So a malamanteau then?


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ElboRuum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 08:02 PM
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17. Self-delete.
Edited on Mon Nov-15-10 08:02 PM by ElboRuum
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Terry in Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 09:04 PM
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22. LOL!
:fistbump:
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 06:37 PM
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dogknob Donating Member (310 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 07:12 PM
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12. I'm still waiting for the rule's to change...
...regarding the liberal use of apostrophe's.

One could argue that things started falling apart when "doh!" made it into several respected dictionaries (oops... dictionarie's) including the Oxford.

Or was it when the Oakland school district officially recognized Ebonics?

I'm no fan of Palin, but the English language is always being corrupted, like it or not. And like plenty of Repug concepts, if enough people start doing something (like apostrophe misuse) over and over, it's going to become "correct" or "truth".
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 07:28 PM
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14. Edite'd
Edited on Mon Nov-15-10 07:31 PM by HCE SuiGeneris
I am sarcastically challenged... :9
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 07:24 PM
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13. OH MY
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 07:57 PM
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15. the first time I saw ''refudiate'' I knew she would b next GOP nominee for president
And probably the next president. Newt, Mitt, and the other GOP hopefuls are going to have to be tutored in stupidity day & night until the primaries if they don't want to be refudiated by conservative voters.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 08:30 PM
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21. Right ... it's mainly about rejecting intellectualism .... and the ability to speak English...!!!
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ElboRuum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 08:06 PM
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18. Wow, those phlangwiggles at Oxford are complete squatlops.
Shit, if Palin can get recognition for making up words... I haven't had my 15 minutes yet...
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 08:15 PM
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19. I'm sure she's very proud.
Fucking idiot.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 08:15 PM
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20. It's a truly cromulent word.
The enlargement of the American lexicon embiggens us all.




The Simpsons: Bart the Lover

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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 09:14 PM
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23. why the neg recs?
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golfguru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 10:41 PM
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27. hehe /nt
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 09:34 PM
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24. Things are looking up for Mme Mooseburger
In 2009 she was the liar of the year for "death panels."
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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 10:37 PM
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25. Other words of the year? Spillcam, Vuvuzela
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/14/AR2010111403185.html

Forget Sarah Palin for once!
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marasinghe Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 12:03 AM
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29. agreed. while i figured "vuvuzela" to be the "cowabunga" of the '10s ....
.... and i could go with "spillcam" - if they switched to the last vowel in the alphabet, on that 2nd syllable,
i repukiate at the very sound of ms. palin's drone; no poetry there - in my totally unqualified opinion of course.
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 11:29 PM
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28. They're in the business of selling their product.
Reminds me of 20 years ago,when Rand McNally named Pittsburgh the best place in America to live.
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Thor_MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 09:02 AM
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30. suggesting a general sense of 'reject.'
Palin's word even describes herself...
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Le Taz Hot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 09:03 AM
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31. Great. We're now rewading illiteracy.
Edited on Tue Nov-16-10 09:08 AM by Le Taz Hot
What's next? "UR" for "your," "yore," and "you're"?

On edit: ' "" '
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MBS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-10 09:05 AM
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33. " " " n/t
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dogknob Donating Member (310 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-10 10:30 AM
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35. What do you mean "Now"? n/t
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-10 11:36 PM
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37. Another repug, Warren G. Harding invented the word "normalcy"
and we've been stuck with it ever since.
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-10 12:10 AM
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38. Her reaction?
(cover your ears)
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