refute = 'repudiate'; catastrophic = 'extraordinarily severe'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Tweetum breve, litterae longae.

JL

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > 2010 S. Palin in _New Yorker_ (Aug. 16) 27: Peaceful New Yorkers, pls
> refute
> > the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @
> Twin
> > Towers site is too raw, too real.
>
> Why not just cite the tweet itself (from July 18)?
>
> http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/18855185436
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> via:
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> http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/refudiate-how-to-miscreate-a-word/
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> cited by me here:
> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2360/
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