Palin's Misuse of English Language Given Praise and Merit

[MagicMouse]

This is terrible.

I for one NEVER make grammatical or spelling mistakes. To see such an obvious and UNFORGIVABLE error be accepted to a language that isn't supposed to change or evolve is sickening. Sarah Palin should be ashamed that Oxford dictionary is adding this word, as it is entirely her fault and not out of her control at all.

/sarcasm

Grow up.

 

[Colonel Alzheimer's]

They generally have to rexhonorate themselves into procrudian usage before they are deformatised into dictionaries.

This one totally elongavated the process of infurundating itself upon the public awardeception.

My browser's dictionary extension did not recognize most of those words. Well played.

 

[Gxas]

May I ask why?

The lot of them are problems. I can't rule one idiot out just because there are other idiots running around as well. Sure, she is not as much of a nuisance as the others, yet, but she will be if she runs for president.

(Please don't take me as anti-republican. Though my views are, technically, more liberal, I am of firm belief that our country has not had a decent candidate for too many elections. No matter who gets the position now, I am sure that they will continue running this country into the ground, just in different ways.

A two-party system cannot work, it has thus far been proven to not work. I am fully against the entire idea of a two-party system.)

 

[MoeTheMonk]

Ugh, the mindless hate on Sarah Palin that RADIATES from topics like this makes me want to throw up, seriously. Everytime the words "Fox" "Glenn, or "Palin" are mentioned, it sets off the chain reaction of 300 posts saying how much they hate that particular thing. YES WE KNOW, THERE ARE 500 OTHER THREADS THAT ARE 11-PAGE LONG HATE-FESTS AS WELL.

Plus, the word itself doesn't sound bad, just say it to yourself. If you were going to add a new word, it sounds like a decent choice to me. Oh, and misuses of the English language is how most new words, phrases, and meanings are made, fyi.

 

[archvile93]

How do people get away with this crap? Are dictionary writers all particularly retarded monkeys these days? Actually that makes sense; how hard is to write a dictionary? Wow, I have a lot of questions.

 

[The3rdEye]

. . . we have "bling-bling" in the oxford dictionary. Everything's open game after that one, the only point of interest here is who it came from. So what.

 

[Frotality]

first education caters to texas, now english caters to palin.

thank you for that link grimsprice, its just the emergency catharsis i need for the dark times we live in.

 

[Lonan]

Source [http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20101115/pl_yblog_theticket/almost-5-million-people-watched-sarah-palins-alaska]

Last summer, Sarah Palin tweeted the word "refudiate". Now, The New Oxford American Dictionary is accepting her word into their dictionary, as well as naming it "Word of the Year".

I for one consider this utter bullshit. We should not be praising morons for their misuse of the English language.

Anyone think differently? Comments? Anyone else as livid about this as me?

This is why americans and oxford shouldn't mix. They've already mutilated a good portion of the English language. Stop the madness.

 

[SpireOfFire]

praising morons for their misuse of the English language.

nothing else needs to be said, thank you sir.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

Refudiate is now in the dictionary? Fuck...coulda sworn "backtrace" would end up bein' the word of the year.

 

[DanDeFool]

We should not be praising morons for their misuse of the English language.

It's philistines like YOU that deny gentlemenlieness as a word!

Shouldn't it be gentlemanliness? Like, you know, manliness, except for gentlemen?

OT: Sarah Palin is a total doucher.

"Refudiate" (ugh, makes me wanna hurl all over my keyboard) should only be a word if it has a definition that's distinct from both refute and repudiate. If not, it's just a pointless bastardization by some idiot politician.

You know bastardization has more merit than "refudiate"?

DESTRUCITY

N: A truce between one's destiny and one's reality. The acceptance of one's current situation while still looking towards one's future.

If Sarah Palin becomes president in 2012 I'll... well... I'll just do my part to make sure that doesn't happen.

And as an added note, most Tea Partiers don't like either Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck (according to someone I know who is involved in the Tea Party). People only associate those two with the Tea Party because of the media coverage afforded them.

Saying Sarah Palin represents the tea party is like saying the Westborogh Baptist Church represents all Christians. It's a much more diverse group than that.

 

[DanDeFool]

EDIT: Double-post. My bad.

 

[Nabirius]

Stephen Colbert had truthiness, so I guess I don't really care. I honestly don't know the context in which the "word" refudiate was used. If it was a joke or parody then I'm fine, if she was serious than this is stupid as all hell.

 

[lacktheknack]

Whatever. I don't understand the Palin hate or praise, and it's not like they gave her anything important.

 

[Thaius]

Hmm... on one hand, that's stupid. On the other hand, it's obvious that the word has a meaning not quite in line with any of the words she could have meant to say. Meaning even if it was a mistake, it was a rather original one, not just her thinking some word was something it wasn't. And words like that are added to the dictionary on a regular basis... I fail to see why this is so terrible.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Damn you, Harding. You invented the word 'normalcy' and it's snowballed into a world where misuse of the English language is the norm.

Damn you, Harding.

Damn you!