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MSNBC Anchor Uses Term "Refudiate" (video)
RealClearPolitics ^ | January 4, 2012 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 01/04/2012 9:23:32 AM PST by i88schwartz

MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts, the network's personality who likened Mitt Romney to the KKK, said the made-up word refudiate on the network this morning. Of course, refudiate is not a real word. However, it gained recognition when former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin used it in a tweet in June of 2010.

MSNBC ridiculed Sarah Palin for weeks when she used the nonexistant word on Twitter in 2010.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: msnbc; refudiate; sarahpalin
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To: i88schwartz
"Of course, refudiate is not a real word."

An English person I know says that many of the words used by anchors on TV are either wrong or made up. The public speaking course says they mustn't leave gaps so they make up words where they simply do not know the correct one. It's a bit like kids adding 'ed' on the back of all words to signify the past tense.

21 posted on 01/04/2012 10:44:44 AM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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To: i88schwartz
Of course, refudiate is not a real word.

It is now.

22 posted on 01/04/2012 11:25:33 AM PST by wideminded
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To: i88schwartz

but could he pronounce ‘corpsman’ or ‘orion’?


23 posted on 01/04/2012 11:33:48 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

>>>embiggened

Funny, I never heard that word until I moved to Springfield :-)<<<

I don’t know why; it’s a perfectly cromulent word.


24 posted on 01/04/2012 11:40:15 AM PST by Above My Pay Grade
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To: Above My Pay Grade

Craptastic!


25 posted on 01/04/2012 2:12:53 PM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: Above My Pay Grade
“>>>embiggened

Funny, I never heard that word until I moved to Springfield :-)<<<

I don’t know why; it’s a perfectly cromulent word.”

My absolute favorite Simpson's joke. I use ‘cromulent’ all the time!

26 posted on 01/04/2012 2:16:28 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: i88schwartz

Nonexistant? Excuse me, but it DOES exist! Sarah made it up, and it is now being used, even by her enemies!

8^)


27 posted on 01/04/2012 3:39:35 PM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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