Sho' nuff
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.”
Nonsense is what O’Donnell is about.
This self admitted communist deserves the worst life offers... and his words are as evil as those of the devil himself.
LLS
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JFK used to call Cuba “ Cuber”....the media thought it was quaint!!!
Lawrence O'Donnell, the guy who proudly proclaims himself not a liberal, but a Socialist?
Pardon me if I fail to give a f*** what he has to say, except maybe if his commentary is along the lines of "Yes, sir, I would like to book that one way. Yes. To Russia. Yes sir. No, just me."
If O’Donnell is miffed at Palin, he should be absolutely furious at Jesse Jackson. To this day, I’ve yet to understand a complete sentence that’s come out of that guy’s mouth.
looks like an accidental merger of two words:
- repudiate: to formally separate from; to reject
- refute: to prove wrong by argument or evidence
I think both of these were accomplished with this election. So I propose adding this word to the dictionary so it will live in history. Let’s just start using the “word” proudly and make a few liberal heads explode.
Sho' nuff
O’Donnell off his meds again...
Lawrence O’Donnell Rages On Bush Speechwriter Marc Thiessen: ‘Your Administration Invited The First Attack’
“Isn’t it true that the president you worked for invited the first attack by having no idea what was going on with al Qaeda? You just admitted that when you were hit on 9/11, you just said, ‘We didn’t know who hit us’. You were told who was going to hit you before 9/11. And your administration invited the first attack, for which you should live in shame.”
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11-6-10
Lawrence O’Donnell Calls Himself A Socialist
I am not a progressive. I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to progressive. Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist. I live to the extreme left, the extreme left of you mere liberals
RE: he should be absolutely furious at Jesse Jackson. To this day, I’ve yet to understand a complete sentence that’s come out of that guy’s mouth
“STAY OUT DA BUSHES !”
I suppose O’Donnell has nothing to say about the Nittaly Lions...?
RE: Let’s just start using the “word” proudly and make a few liberal heads explode.
Rush Limbaugh has been using the word : STRATEGERY for the longest time.
And as for Dubya, he now proudly uses the word “mis-underestimate”.
I kinda like the sound of the latter.
Since when does a socialist, the author of our current public schhoos and Ebonics, care about proper English.
OK Larry what about whole language, invented spelling and ebonics?
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” James D. Nicoll
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