Palin's 'refudiate' named a Word of the Year

[sabra]

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.' "

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[NRaleighLiberal]

1. amazing how it is all about enabling her....

when ignorance = creativity, you know we are in really bad situation!

[aquart]

2. It's a beautiful portmanteau word.

[AtheistCrusader]

8. It seems to make some people frumious.

[Le Taz Hot]

32. And it speaks of the Pompitous of Love . . .

[October]

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.

[savalez]

5. +1

[Evasporque]

4. I can honestly say I will...

NEVER USE THIS WORD FOR AS LONG AS I HAVE BREATH.

[savalez]

6. This is madness!

[Lifelong Protester]

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...)

[golfguru]

26. She has magnetic personality /nt

[Lifelong Protester]

34. Well, magnets can repulse... which is what she does for me

[golfguru]

36. Dat true /nr

[Kurska]

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?

[Populist_Prole]

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.

[ElboRuum]

16. So a malamanteau then?

[ElboRuum]

17. Self-delete.

[Terry in Austin]

22. LOL!

:fistbump:

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[dogknob]

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".

[HCE SuiGeneris]

14. Edite'd

I am sarcastically challenged... :9

[CLANG]

13. OH MY

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[yurbud]

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.

[defendandprotect]

21. Right ... it's mainly about rejecting intellectualism .... and the ability to speak English...!!!

[ElboRuum]

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...

[louis-t]

19. I'm sure she's very proud.

Fucking idiot.

[Kerrytravelers]

20. It's a truly cromulent word.

The enlargement of the American lexicon embiggens us all.




The Simpsons: Bart the Lover

[Liberal_in_LA]

23. why the neg recs?

[golfguru]

27. hehe /nt

[Jack Rabbit]

24. Things are looking up for Mme Mooseburger

In 2009 she was the liar of the year for "death panels."

[alp227]

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!

[marasinghe]

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.

[TexasObserver]

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.

[Thor_MN]

30. suggesting a general sense of 'reject.'

Palin's word even describes herself...

[Le Taz Hot]

31. Great. We're now rewading illiteracy.

What's next? "UR" for "your," "yore," and "you're"?

On edit: ' "" '

[MBS]

33. " " " n/t

[dogknob]

35. What do you mean "Now"? n/t

[Hardrada]

37. Another repug, Warren G. Harding invented the word "normalcy"

and we've been stuck with it ever since.

[marzipanni]

38. Her reaction?

(cover your ears)