Posted on 11/18/2010 12:30:47 PM PST by WebFocus
If there is something we learned this year, it’s that anything Palin tweets or writes on Facebook becomes international news and the talk of the nation, especially when it comes to politics.
Two nights ago on his program, Lawrence O’Donnell decided to rant on New Oxford American Dictionary for their decision to include Sarah Palin’s word “refudiate” into the English language.
Palin’s typo in a tweet about the Ground Zero mosque was the talk on twitter. Palin called it “Shakespearean.” The result: she popularized the word and it is now part of the lexicon.
New Oxford wrote about their decision:
An unquestionable buzzmaker in 2010, the word refudiate instantly evokes the name of Sarah Palin, who tweeted her way into a flurry of media activity when she used the word in certain statements posted on Twitter. Critics pounced on Palin, lampooning what they saw as nonsensical vocabulary and speculating on whether she meant refute or repudiate.
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.
Lawrence O’Donnell got wee-wee’d up with the decision, and lashed out against the dictionary for allowing Sarah Palin to ruin the English language, or something. He is also annoyed that for a woman, who he claims will not run for president, gets this much attention. Then why talk about her if she is so irrelevant?
“No doubt Sarah Palin and her supporters will take this honor and run with it; next they will be demanding that cartographers actually move Russia even closer to Sarah Palin house.”
At least she doesnt get memorial day and veterans day mixed up, knows how to say corpsman and knows that “Austrian” isnt a langauge.
Who is Lawrence O’Donnell?? Some dictionary-user?
How about Austrian? :^)
And Sarah Palin doesn’t say “corpse-man” like that idiot Obama did when referring to the Marine Corps.
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
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.
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.
ridding I mean, damn keyboard
Language is like a snapshot in time.
The English we use today is very different than in the past.
I’ve thought about it for a while, and I think “corpse-man” was a verbal middle finger to the Marines.
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').
Obama: “Brazilian? Is that what comes after ‘trillion’?”
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?
Lawrence, nobody asked you, because NOBODY WATCHES YOUR SHOW! So, go pray to your statue of Karl Marx and STFU.
Q: What is “fee fi fo, fi fo, fi fo”?
A: Mike Tyson’s phone number.
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."
Oh how soon the mediaPUKES forget the “weeweed up” word from President LOSER obama! GET A FREAKING GRIP YOU STUPID MEDIAwhores!!
Yeah. Horrible. Kinda like “corpse” for “corps”.
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.
Imaginating, as in, “I’m not imaginating.”.
“Obama’s attempts to revive the economy have failed. I’m not imaginating.”
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