[lit-ideas] Refudiate
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:43:07 EDT
Repudiations -- and other clever portmanteaus
In a message dated 8/2/2010 6:26:24 P.M., mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Yankee Puritan English) of
the slavers, e.g., "We be here."
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Palin noticed that a mosque cannot be 'repudiated'. Nor can it 'refuted'.
"Refused", maybe. But to avoid a big controversy, she blended a triolet into
"refudiate". Note that 'p' (as in 'repudiate') and 'f' (as in 'refute', or
'refuse') are both Labials.
A conservative commentator put the 'blame' on Palin's advisers. She
obviously hand-wrote the note, 'repudiate', correctly with the 'p'. If you've
seen Palin's handwriting, the 'p' comes out as an 'f'. The reader surely read,
'reFudiate' and twitted it like that. The blame, alas, went to Palin.
The point of her utterance is that a mosque in Ground Zero (along with a
gym) should be refudiated by peaceful Muslims --. A conservative commentator
indicated that by using a non-existent word ('refudiated'), Palin is
impicating that there are no peaceful Muslims.
Speranza, Bordighera
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