REFUDIATE VS TRUTHINESS

[lame54]

Sarah Palin, in her tweet, used the word REFUDIATE thinking it was an actual word.
Later she tried to cover by claiming she was making it up much like Shakespeare made up words

Stephen Colbert, on his first show, used the word TRUTHINESS in his "The Word" segment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

In satire, truthiness is a "truth" that a person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.<1>
American television comedian Stephen Colbert revealed this definition<2> as the subject of a segment called "The Wørd" during the pilot episode of his political satire program The Colbert Report on October 17, 2005. By using this as part of his routine, Colbert satirized the misuse of appeal to emotion and "gut feeling" as a rhetorical device in contemporaneous socio-political discourse.<3> He particularly applied it to U.S. President George W. Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and the decision to invade Iraq in 2003.<4> Colbert later ascribed truthiness to other institutions and organizations, including Wikipedia.<5> Colbert has sometimes used a quasi-Latin version of the term, "Veritasiness".<6>

Truthiness, although a "stunt word", was named Word of the Year for 2005 by the American Dialect Society and for 2006 by Merriam-Webster.<7><8> However, linguist and OED consultant Benjamin Zimmer<2><9> pointed out that the word truthiness<10> already had a history in literature and appears in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), as a derivation of truthy, and The Century Dictionary, both of which indicate it as rare or dialectal, and to be defined more straightforwardly as "truthfulness, faithfulness".<2>

[marmar]

1. One was uttered intentionally by a satirist.....The other was uttered unintentionally by an idiot.

nt

[flamingdem]

3. lol! nt

[malaise]

6. Ding ding

We have a winner

[MineralMan]

2. I Refudiate Your Post's Tittle.

:rofl:

[demwing]

7. That's just because you can't handle the truthiness

No truthiness handler, thou!

[lame54]

9. Tittle My Faschizle

[hobbit709]

4. Sister Sarah might as well make up words

She makes up everything else she says too.

[Motown_Johnny]

8. soon she will start stringing together made up words into what she thinks are sentences

and then she will make up new grammar rules. Finally it will be new punctuation and her complete transformation of the the English language into gibberish understood only by those who can see the Empress's new clothes (that the RNC bought her).


Jabberwocky has got nothing on Sarah

[Motown_Johnny]

5. I agree with marmar

one was the intentional creation of something that he knew was not yet an actual word, the other was simply ignorance.

[malaise]

10. Discussion of 'refudiate' coming up on GEM$NBC

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah :rofl:

[liberal N proud]

11. It is a tossed word salad

Things get a little mixed up in a salad sometimes.

[lunatica]

12. Can the word sarapropism be added to the dictionary?

Or palapropism? There are so many by now.