[lit-ideas] Re: Refudiate
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 20:41:44 EDT
In a message dated 8/7/2010 7:08:59 P.M., mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx writes:
On 8/2/2010 5:43 PM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Palin is impicating that there are no peaceful Muslims.
To me it seems that Palin has merely heard the
word "repudiate," never read the word on a page,
and mashes it together with "refuse."
Has that been considered by linguists? Probably
most of these aw-shucks, bumpkin-manqué, hee-haw
locutions arise from speakers who have not read
the word in question, merely heard it.
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Don't think so. For she said:
"pls refudiate"
and then she corrected that to "reject" or "refute", rather than 'refuse'.
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Finally she notes that Shakespeare, also for effect, emphatises a term so
that it catches the eye or the ear.
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Palin had used the word before, in an interview. "Refudiate the comments of
us as racists" she had claimed.
The word had been used back in 1920.
In general, it's best to see it as a portmanteau of 'repudiate' (which is
VERY Strong, and Palin did not want anything as strong) with 'refute' (as in
'refute an argument') and 'refuse' (as in 'refuse funds to the proposed
mosque').
Apparenty, it's going to be introduced in the third edition of the Oxford
English Dictionary.
Speranza
Bordighera
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