Oxford English Dictionary, Pls Refudiate
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Oh man. Now she’ll be even more insufferable: ‘Refudiate’ Named Oxford English Dictionary’s Top Word of 2010.
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AK-47% Mon, Nov 15, 2010 10:58:03am |
When Elmer Fudd repeats himself, does he "refuddiate"?
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Obdicut Mon, Nov 15, 2010 10:59:16am |
People like Palin rarely get the difference between 'laughing at you' and 'laughing with you'.
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Aye Pod Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:00:00am |
She'll be thrilled to bits at this acknowlegery of her creationality.
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:00:19am |
re: #2 Obdicut
People like Palin rarely get the difference between 'laughing at you' and 'laughing with you'.
The two most frightening words in the english language? President Palin
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:02:05am |
Technology has come so far, yet we still use words like we are sending a telegram.
Not a shot at Sarah... a shot at the world of words.
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elizajane Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:02:47am |
It's a dubious honor. George W. Bush achieved mention on this list in 2000 for the word "W" (I kid you not), merely by having a middle initial.
Another top-10 word this year was vuvuzela. Now there's a word to conjure with.
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Merryweather Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:02:52am |
You would think that putting a word that has no meaning in a dictionary would be rather problematic, but obviously not.
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:03:00am |
re: #6 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Technology has come so far, yet we still use words like we are sending a telegram.
Not a shot at Sarah... a shot at the world of words.
Not quite stop
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Charleston Chew Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:05:36am |
I'm a little confused. The linked article only mentions The Global Language Monitor of Austin, TX, not the OED.
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:06:05am |
re: #9 PT Barnum
Not quite stop
spoken language should be improvisation, played with abandon.
written language should be a symphony, played with precision.
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Shiplord Kirel Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:06:18am |
re: #4 PT Barnum
The two most frightening words in the english language? President Palin
It could have happened. Suppose McCain had won and then died of overwork a year or so into his term? That is not at all impossible for a septuagenarian with known health problems. Palin would be president right now.
Fortunately, McCain is alive and well, somebody else is VP, and we have additional time to prepare for the next Palinite onslaught in 2012.
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:06:47am |
re: #12 PT Barnum
spoken language should be improvisation, played with abandon.
written language should be a symphony, played with precision.
Sarah Palin's use of language is the equivelant of 60's bubblegum, highly produced and totally meaningless.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:07:14am |
After what I have seen from my daughter's facebook friends, I have given up on the future of the English language.
Maybe they can preserve French or Russian or something. English is doomed.
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b_sharp Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:07:49am |
re: #14 PT Barnum
Sarah Palin's use of language is the equivelant of 60's bubblegum, highly produced and totally meaningless.
Dude! You are talking to yourself.
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:08:34am |
re: #13 Shiplord Kirel
It could have happened. Suppose McCain had won and then died of overwork a year or so into his term? That is not at all impossible for a septuagenarian with known health problems. Palin would be president right now.
Fortunately, McCain is alive and well, somebody else is VP, and we have additional time to prepare for the next Palinite onslaught in 2012.
That's what why the whole thing is so frightening. Nothing quite so scary as a near miss that you survive.
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:09:08am |
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Shiplord Kirel Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:09:08am |
I thought "vuvuzela" was Brazilish for, er, some part of the female anatomy.
/
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Kragar Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:09:31am |
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:09:56am |
re: #19 Shiplord Kirel
I thought "vuvuzela" was Brazilish for, er, some part of the female anatomy.
/
I had the same thought, but thought better of bringing it up. :)
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Charleston Chew Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:10:23am |
re: #20 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Another made up word one can now find in a dictionary.
Technically, that's true of all words.
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iossarian Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:11:56am |
re: #22 Charleston Chew
Technically, that's true of all words.
Shakespeare and Palin, together at last!
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:12:07am |
re: #22 Charleston Chew
Technically, that's true of all words.
Yes..I'm still working to get anxcited accepted.
Anxcitement - the state of being excited and anxious at the same time.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:12:39am |
My favorite "new" word is still muggle.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:12:50am |
re: #15 EmmmieG
Kind of what I meant. Even as a high school graduate with four years of Grammar I; I am appalled by what I see with the use of English.
Someone posted this on my Facebook page yesterday.
"So why didn't u come 2 rke 2 c me?"
If I timed myself, I could probably type, "So, why didn't you come to Roanoke to see me" in the same amount of time as it took to type the sentence above.
Not even talking about the word "repudiate". Is it so much harder to type "please" than "pls"?
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Kragar Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:12:51am |
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b_sharp Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:13:53am |
re: #20 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Another made up word one can now find in a dictionary.
At least somebody got my point.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:14:16am |
re: #20 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Another made up word one can now find in a dictionary.
Meh... is also there.
But, then again, aren't all words made up
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:14:21am |
re: #28 b_sharp
Huh?
If I'd asked what I said, talking to myself would be a matter of schitzophrenia, as it is, it's just extending a previous thought.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:15:00am |
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:15:23am |
re: #26 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Kind of what I meant. Even as a high school graduate with four years of Grammar I; I am appalled by what I see with the use of English.
Someone posted this on my Facebook page yesterday.
"So why didn't u come 2 rke 2 c me?"
If I timed myself, I could probably type, "So, why didn't you come to Roanoke to see me" in the same amount of time as it took to type the sentence above.
Not even talking about the word "repudiate". Is it so much harder to type "please" than "pls"?
But could you get all that in 140 characters or in the space you have on your cell phone screen?
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3eff Jeff Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:16:20am |
re: #33 PT Barnum
But could you get all that in 140 characters or in the space you have on your cell phone screen?
Which is one reason I do not have a data plan on my phone. The other is that anything more than a handful of nanocents per byte is highway robbery.
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Kragar Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:17:00am |
re: #30 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Meh... is also there.
But, then again, aren't all words made up
Except the ones in the Bible. Those came from God.
/
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:17:54am |
*facepalm*
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AK-47% Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:18:01am |
re: #30 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Meh... is also there.
But, then again, aren't all words made up
Some worrds are made up by creative people using the language to find new ways of expression, others are brought about by the clueless...
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:18:53am |
I seriously want to lift a comment from one of her facebook buddies, but we're talking about a minor child, and even without using her name, I would be mocking a fourteen year-old who apparently was never taught to use apostrophes, capital letters, a dictionary, or the shift key.
Not really sure whose fault this is.
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Obdicut Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:19:00am |
re: #37 ralphieboy
My friend Sean is a brilliant, brilliant writer who can't spell worth a damn. However, he makes interesting misspellings.
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:19:11am |
re: #37 ralphieboy
Some worrds are made up by creative people using the language to find new ways of expression, others are brought about by the clueless...
What's difficult is telling the difference. Like Eddie Izzard says, there's a very fine line between being brilliant and looking like a dickhead. I always seem to be on the wrong side of that equation unfortunately.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:19:16am |
re: #35 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Except the ones in the Bible. Those came from God.
/
So Hebrew isn't made up? Because English is the ultimate mish mash.
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b_sharp Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:19:59am |
re: #31 PT Barnum
If I'd asked what I said, talking to myself would be a matter of schitzophrenia, as it is, it's just extending a previous thought.
So my asking what you said, by using the ever so eloquent 'huh', is not indicative of my having schizophrenia but if you had asked 'huh' then both of us would be suffering from the same affliction?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:20:09am |
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:20:54am |
re: #41 EmmmieG
So Hebrew isn't made up? Because English is the ultimate mish mash.
I suspect the mishmashery is why English has become the defacto global language. That and being the language spoken by the major Colonial powers of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:22:06am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:22:07am |
I had to look up the word "probably" once because I was absolutely sure I had misspelled it. When the dictionary had it spelled properly? Honestly? I thought the dictionary had it wrong.
It just spells out so perfectly, I thought I was probably wrong.
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reloadingisnotahobby Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:22:37am |
re: #24 PT Barnum
Yes..I'm still working to get anxcited accepted.
Anxcitement - the state of being excited and anxious at the same time.
And thus the birth of a new and improved medication!!
for a new ailment to be sold on TV to people who don't have
Tevo/DVR and a Super high speed remote control with auto
volumne/mute for all comercials that don't show scantily clad models with large bussom 's they purchased from a commercially advertised physician who himself is a spokes person for Hair Club and not only that boys and girls he's also a member......Deep breath........
Annoying ain't it!
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Kragar Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:24:11am |
Where is Varek?
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:24:27am |
re: #47 reloadingisnotahobby
And thus the birth of a new and improved medication!!
for a new ailment to be sold on TV to people who don't have
Tevo/DVR and a Super high speed remote control with auto
volumne/mute for all comercials that don't show scantily clad models with large bussom 's they purchased from a commercially advertised physician who himself is a spokes person for Hair Club and not only that boys and girls he's also a member...Deep breath...
Annoying ain't it!
You misspelled Tivo. :)
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reloadingisnotahobby Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:24:55am |
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b_sharp Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:24:55am |
Just to preempt everyone - please do not use the word 'proactive', it fills my head with smelly socks.
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reloadingisnotahobby Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:25:15am |
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:26:25am |
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What, me worry? Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:26:29am |
re: #26 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Kind of what I meant. Even as a high school graduate with four years of Grammar I; I am appalled by what I see with the use of English.
Someone posted this on my Facebook page yesterday.
"So why didn't u come 2 rke 2 c me?"
If I timed myself, I could probably type, "So, why didn't you come to Roanoke to see me" in the same amount of time as it took to type the sentence above.
Not even talking about the word "repudiate". Is it so much harder to type "please" than "pls"?
Actually, it is easier. Back when I wrote macros for Wang software, the idea was to use the less amount of keystroking possible. So while it seems silly, 8 keystrokes are indeed better than 9. The basic rule is: the fewer, the faster.
Then again, I wasn't writing anything that anyone was READING. You're talking about the fall of the English language and that most definitely is changing and I agree. Not in a good way.
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:26:48am |
re: #53 PT Barnum
nice stream of consciousness rant though.
If you were really angry when you said it would it become a steam of consciousness?
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3eff Jeff Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:27:21am |
re: #51 b_sharp
Just to preempt everyone - please do not use the word 'proactive', it fills my head with smelly socks.
Hmm, it sounds like there is a story behind this proactive request... //
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The Left Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:27:24am |
re: #51 b_sharp
Just to preempt everyone - please do not use the word 'proactive', it fills my head with smelly socks.
So this was a proactive preemption on your part?
Sorry, I just loved the image of a head filled with smelly socks. :)
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:27:27am |
re: #51 b_sharp
Just to preempt everyone - please do not use the word 'proactive', it fills my head with smelly socks.
Nice way to be proactive about everyone not using the word proactive.
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reloadingisnotahobby Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:27:53am |
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reloadingisnotahobby Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:28:55am |
re: #54 marjoriemoon
You said Wang and Software in the same sentence!
*snicker*
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:28:56am |
re: #57 iceweasel
So this was a proactive preemption on your part?
Sorry, I just loved the image of a head filled with smelly socks. :)
Me too...it's that Phew! reaction people get when they take their shoes off after a long day. Usually what I imagine when I happen to execute a particularly stinky pun.
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Obdicut Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:29:01am |
re: #54 marjoriemoon
Actually, it is easier. Back when I wrote macros for Wang software, the idea was to use the less amount of keystroking possible.
Tell me more about your work with wangs and stroking.
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:29:40am |
re: #60 reloadingisnotahobby
You said Wang and Software in the same sentence!
*snicker*
Why do you think they called the company microsoft?
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reloadingisnotahobby Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:29:43am |
re: #60 reloadingisnotahobby
You said Wang and Software in the same sentence!
*snicker*
...and keystroking........
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What, me worry? Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:30:42am |
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elizajane Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:30:43am |
re: #41 EmmmieG
So Hebrew isn't made up? Because English is the ultimate mish mash.
Hebrew, and a few other languages, were sometimes thought to be THE original language. The one Adam spoke when he named the animals. But most scholars agreed that that original language was lost when God punished Nimrod for building the Tower of Babel. The mish mash or babble that is English (and every other language) is thus a divine product, albeit a kind of punishment, and modern language stands between us and true understanding of the world.
I can only speak for the Renaissance here. I have no idea what greater nuttiness has been dreamt up by the Christian Right in the last century or so.
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What, me worry? Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:31:46am |
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reloadingisnotahobby Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:32:56am |
re: #65 marjoriemoon
Well we're still fond of you!
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Obdicut Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:33:20am |
re: #66 elizajane
Except for one eccentric British editor, who was convinced that Britain was actually Israel. I think he put the Garden of Eden somewhere around Gloucestershire.
Seriously.
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recusancy Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:33:39am |
Gov Christie is pimping O'Keefe's disgraceful "journalism". Two scumbags trying to destroy teachers.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:34:50am |
re: #54 marjoriemoon
I guess you have to grow accustomed to the shorthand too. Whenever I am going to employ it... I have to stop and think.
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Shiplord Kirel Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:36:25am |
re: #66 elizajane
I can only speak for the Renaissance here. I have no idea what greater nuttiness has been dreamt up by the Christian Right in the last century or so.
Ah, so you're interested in Tea Party history:
The English language is sacred, having been inspired by God and handed down to us by the Patriarchs in the form of the King James Bible. King James was a predecessor of King Solomon though not as well known since he didn't marry someone like Beersheba and father two thousand brats who grew up to found Islam and the Republic of Mexico.
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SpaceJesus Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:37:11am |
holy shit the front page of drudge right now lol
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Obdicut Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:38:06am |
re: #74 SpaceJesus
Drudge apparently has turned into a Democrat from 2002.
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What, me worry? Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:38:23am |
re: #71 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I guess you have to grow accustomed to the shorthand too. Whenever I am going to employ it... I have to stop and think.
I'm always tempted to use "btw" with my bosses and sometimes not capitalize or put in appropriate punctuation. Really a dumb thing when doing office work. I sometimes get messages like that from their Blackberry, but it's hard to text, drive, and be an asshole all at once, so I understand it.
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What, me worry? Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:38:51am |
re: #68 reloadingisnotahobby
Well we're still fond of you!
(I secretly still love you guys, just don't tell anyone.)
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recusancy Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:38:51am |
re: #74 SpaceJesus
holy shit the front page of drudge right now lol
I can't disagree with that. I don't even think it's hyperbole.
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lawhawk Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:38:58am |
re: #41 EmmmieG
Even Hebrew is full of transliterations these days to deal with the influx of technological terms. All languages mutate and develop, but it is quite unusual for a typo to be cast as a wholly new word and seemingly accepted by the dictionary-types in the time it took to write refudiate.
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Charles Johnson Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:39:04am |
re: #74 SpaceJesus
holy shit the front page of drudge right now lol
The picture is from years ago. I'm pretty sure I posted it here, but I can't seem to find the post.
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reloadingisnotahobby Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:39:49am |
re: #76 marjoriemoon
You could give us a phone # and we could staighten that out for ya in jiffy!
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William Barnett-Lewis Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:40:10am |
Not to mention the whole genre of write-only software... usually forth, APL, LISP Macros, or some of the entries in the obfuscated C contest. I've seen the original writer of some of these code examples not be able to read it later. Some scary C code can be found here: [Link: www0.us.ioccc.org...]
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:42:35am |
re: #82 wlewisiii
Not to mention the whole genre of write-only software... usually forth, APL, LISP Macros, or some of the entries in the obfuscated C contest. I've seen the original writer of some of these code examples not be able to read it later. Some scary C code can be found here: [Link: www0.us.ioccc.org...]
The first commandment of writing good code.
Comment everything
The second commandment
See the first commandment
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What, me worry? Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:42:40am |
re: #81 reloadingisnotahobby
You could give us a phone # and we could staighten that out for ya in jiffy!
1-800-NOT IN THIS LIFE :>
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Kragar Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:42:59am |
Ah yes, a rule that all people must be screened prior to boarding a plane obviously means the terrorists have won. I'll go home, wrap my women folk up and place my mat towards Mecca at once.
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SpaceJesus Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:43:09am |
now that the terrorists have won, what does this mean for my student loans
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Killgore Trout Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:43:29am |
re: #74 SpaceJesus
holy shit the front page of drudge right now lol
Yeah, he's had links to infowars at the top of the page for close to 2 weeks. Also that picture of the nun being frisked by the Muslim was from about 2005.
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Kragar Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:43:45am |
re: #87 SpaceJesus
now that the terrorists have won, what does this mean for my student loans
Floggings.
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Almost Killed by Space Hookers Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:43:47am |
I really doubt sincerely she can become more insufferable. Besides, it is not as if the article says the word was correct.
Other top words include "refudiate," a conflation of "refute" and "repudiate" used by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
If anything it means that the Oxford people are smacking Palin.
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Shiplord Kirel Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:44:50am |
Dealership: Buy Truck, Get Free AK-47
Note: This is not in Waziristan
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Kragar Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:44:55am |
re: #90 LudwigVanQuixote
I really doubt sincerely she can become more insufferable. Besides, it is not as if the article says the word was correct.
If anything it means that the Oxford people are smacking Palin.
She's not bright enough to know they're mocking her.
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:45:04am |
Wait'll that screener discovers she's wearing her Nasty habit!
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Killgore Trout Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:45:09am |
re: #80 Charles
The picture is from years ago. I'm pretty sure I posted it here, but I can't seem to find the post.
Ask CXhen Zen. He knows the LGF archive like the back of his hand.
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lawhawk Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:45:24am |
re: #80 Charles
It was taken by Dean Shaddock at the Detroit airport in September 2007 from what I can tell.
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:46:02am |
Leather Nuns from Phobos
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SpaceJesus Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:47:07am |
re: #88 Killgore Trout
yeah, when charles said he posted it long ago, i thought back and yeah, i have seen it years before.
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Killgore Trout Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:47:07am |
It's interesting to see Drudge now linking to Prison Planet instead of infowars. The stories are the same on both sites but Drudge is helping Alex Jones by directing traffic to both sites.
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Daniel Ballard Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:47:35am |
re: #3 Jimmah
This will be Sarah Palins most lasting impact on our politico/cultural scene.
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What, me worry? Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:47:38am |
re: #90 LudwigVanQuixote
I really doubt sincerely she can become more insufferable. Besides, it is not as if the article says the word was correct.
If anything it means that the Oxford people are smacking Palin.
"Smacking Palin" or "Smacking The Palin"
Might be worth a dictionary definition.
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Killgore Trout Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:47:54am |
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:47:55am |
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McNug Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:48:57am |
I know linguistic drift is inevitable and that it's been happening since the dawn of mankind, but for some reason this depresses the hell out of me.
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Charles Johnson Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:49:01am |
Yep - here's my post, with the photo linked to the Flickr page:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
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Shiplord Kirel Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:49:31am |
re: #88 Killgore Trout
Yeah, he's had links to infowars at the top of the page for close to 2 weeks. Also that picture of the nun being frisked by the Muslim was from about 2005.
As usual Drudge, Jones, and Beck have missed the real conspiracy: It's a plot to promote AmTrak. Everyone knows libruls love trains.
/
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SpaceJesus Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:49:54am |
looks like matt's a little slow on the ol' uptake
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Kragar Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:50:25am |
re: #106 Charles
Yep - here's my post, with the photo linked to the Flickr page:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
MY GOD! THE TERRORISTS WON IN 2007 AND NOBODY KNEW IT!
No wonder Obama won the election.
/
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AK-47% Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:50:53am |
re: #105 McNug
there is linguistic drift and then there is linguistic decay. we are experiencing an age of the latter...
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mojo9 Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:50:57am |
re: #102 marjoriemoon
such as, "i tried to see the logic, but the argument had been Palinized"
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Big Steve Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:51:02am |
re: #106 Charles
Yep - here's my post, with the photo linked to the Flickr page:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
That was fun.....some old timie posters on that thread who are no longer around. What ever happened to Mandy Manners?
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SpaceJesus Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:51:51am |
re: #112 Big Steve
she was committed to shady pines mental institution where there is no wifi
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3eff Jeff Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:51:52am |
re: #107 Shiplord Kirel
As usual Drudge, Jones, and Beck have missed the real conspiracy: It's a plot to promote AmTrak. Everyone knows libruls love trains.
/
I used to take Amtrack to get to work. It's the only commuter train I've ever ridden where you can get a beer on the way home (or on the way to work, for that matter, but that is not generally recommended).
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What, me worry? Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:52:05am |
re: #94 PT Barnum
Wait'll that screener discovers she's wearing her Nasty habit!
Pffft, they started frisking at the DMV years ago. I used to go in a few times a month when my social life slowed down.
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Big Steve Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:52:18am |
re: #108 SpaceJesus
looks like matt's a little slow on the ol' uptake
Nah he is just beating the TSA bandwagon this week.
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recusancy Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:55:10am |
re: #112 Big Steve
That was fun...some old timie posters on that thread who are no longer around. What ever happened to Mandy Manners?
Lots of bigotry there.
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Mr. Crankypants Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:55:28am |
re: #115 marjoriemoon
Pffft, they started frisking at the DMV years ago. I used to go in a few times a month when my social life slowed down.
Hope you wore clean underwear....
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mikefromArlington Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:56:14am |
Trashbaggers guide to English literature.
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What, me worry? Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:56:18am |
re: #112 Big Steve
That was fun...some old timie posters on that thread who are no longer around. What ever happened to Mandy Manners?
Miss Mandy wore out her Manners.
Btw, is that a Star of David on your camel there? Looks similar to the Russian stacking dolls.
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Big Steve Mon, Nov 15, 2010 11:59:37am |
re: #120 marjoriemoon
Miss Mandy wore out her Manners.
Btw, is that a Star of David on your camel there? Looks similar to the Russian stacking dolls.
doubt it.....the camel is actually a figurine made from a real camel's bladder. Came from India circa 1940's and one can acutally fit a light bulb in it and it glows.....it is an insider joke in my family.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:00:20pm |
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Talking Point Detective Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:00:21pm |
[Link: www.arktimes.com...]
The South shall rise again
New state rep: Confederate flag 'a symbol of Jesus Christ.'But there are Republicans and there is Republican Loy Mauch, elected to represent House District 26 near Hot Springs. A former head of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans post in Hot Springs, Mauch calls the Confederate flag "a symbol of Jesus Christ," and is a current member of The League of the South, a group which works toward the formation of an independent Southern nation...
"The government has lost its moral authority over God-fearing Americans," Mauch wrote to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. "I wish more patriots like James Vandiver would take their stand for what the Confederate Battle Flag truly symbolizes."...When asked what the Confederate flag symbolizes, Mauch said: "It's a symbol of constitutional government. It's a symbol of Jesus Christ above all else. It's a symbol of Biblical government."
Mauch has used the phrase "Biblical government," in letters to the editor before, but said he doesn't mean a theocracy. "It's just that the government has limitations," he said. "Christians are commanded to obey the laws of the land as ordained by God. It's like that... it's constitutional government, with limitations on government."
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lawhawk Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:02:16pm |
The bizarre thing is that the full body scanners were seen as the improved technology to eliminate the need for pat-downs, and would detect weapons that might be missed on a pat-down or manual sweep.
Instead, we get a huge kerfuffle over the way the images are being used/kept/stored, and even the radiation emitted in the scans that some unions and others think might result in cumulative radiation levels that are too high for frequent travelers or folks like pilots.
Terrorists do keep trying to bring items on board planes and mass transit, so it isn't like the threat has disappeared, but providing adequate security means devoting resources in an effective and efficient manner while respecting civil rights.
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Aceofwhat? Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:03:39pm |
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recusancy Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:04:59pm |
re: #106 Charles
Yep - here's my post, with the photo linked to the Flickr page:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
Lolz... Here's the best comment from there. I still don't understand how this place did a 180 (for the most part) so quickly on matters regarding Islam.
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Obdicut Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:07:02pm |
re: #127 recusancy
Wow.
2018 The Muslim population of California increases to 39%, nationwide it’s 13%
Currently it's 1% in California.
Better get a move on.
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recusancy Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:08:47pm |
re: #128 Obdicut
Wow.
Currently it's 1% in California.
Better get a move on.
"2011 Saudi Arabian businessmen purchase Time / AOL"
lol... better not tell that poster about News Corp.
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What, me worry? Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:09:39pm |
re: #121 Big Steve
doubt it...the camel is actually a figurine made from a real camel's bladder. Came from India circa 1940's and one can acutally fit a light bulb in it and it glows...it is an insider joke in my family.
India actually had a fairly substantial Jewish population at one time.
It's probably a flower, but looks like a Star in your pic. I won't ask any more questions!
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Shiplord Kirel Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:11:20pm |
re: #127 recusancy
Lolz... Here's the best comment from there. I still don't understand how this place did a 180 (for the most part) so quickly on matters regarding Islam.
For me it seemed quite natural since if coincided with my return from Iraq. I had seen Muslims risking their lives in the fight against terrorism and working night and day to rebuild their country. The generalized hate toward a whole religion seemed less a moral problem than a simple example of ignorance.
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What, me worry? Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:11:55pm |
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Shiplord Kirel Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:14:21pm |
re: #124 Talking Point Detective
[Link: www.arktimes.com...]
Yikes! And he's Republican no less! At one time, there was a Republican administration (Honest Abe's) that would have clapped this fool in jail and held him indefinitely. It was unconstitutional but, hey, they're the ones who long for the good old days.
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Mich-again Mon, Nov 15, 2010 12:37:50pm |
From the linked article..
The Monitor tracks the frequency of words and phrases in social media, on the Internet and in global print and electronic media and accesses proprietary databases, according to its website.
So, the reason the word refudiate made the list is that there was so much buzz on the internet about the word, and the reason that there was so much buzz about the word was that so many sites including this one made a big deal out of it. If she had muttered the made-up word and no one cared enough to use it to mock her, it would have just drifted off to obscurity. Now she gets to claim she made up a new word. Kind of ironic how it all works.
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Artist Mon, Nov 15, 2010 1:50:27pm |
I do believe that was the sound of my brain popping a blood vessel.
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Charleston Chew Mon, Nov 15, 2010 1:50:30pm |
re: #90 LudwigVanQuixote
I really doubt sincerely she can become more insufferable. Besides, it is not as if the article says the word was correct.
If anything it means that the Oxford people are smacking Palin.
I don't think the article mentions the OED at all. Rather, it's The Global Language Monitor out of Austin, Tx.
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Charles Johnson Mon, Nov 15, 2010 2:10:13pm |
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ozbloke Mon, Nov 15, 2010 2:57:25pm |
Refudiate:
colloquial term for the hard to say word repudiate ~ Palinism
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John Vreeland Mon, Nov 15, 2010 6:47:09pm |
re: #114 3eff Jeff
I used to take Amtrack to get to work. It's the only commuter train I've ever ridden where you can get a beer on the way home (or on the way to work, for that matter, but that is not generally recommended).
The Long Island RR used to have a bar car like that. Given that some days it would take almost two hours to get from the city to the parking lot your car was sitting in... Some people thought it was a problem.
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nines09 Mon, Nov 15, 2010 7:39:46pm |
But the word refudiate has an inperfication about it. Unindelibly inperficated. But I guess if you say it enough.....
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theheat Tue, Nov 16, 2010 6:20:52am |
Over the weekend I got FW FW FWd a note to watch "great family programming": Sarah Palin was going to be on television. Yes, Caribou Barnie, the fearless leader of all causes backwards and fundie.
If that moron is the ingredient for great family programming, we're this >< close to Brawndo in the water supply, screw the fluoride.
Sarah Palin family programming? I'd rather fall on a sword or light my television on fire.
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