"refudiate" (v.) repudiate (adj,)

[Joel S. Berson]

Dan, as I refudiated in my message, Palin didn't actually say
this.  It was my invention.  But I trust in the spirit of Palinisms.

Joel

At 12/29/2010 04:07 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>"Finger failure"? Did she mean "Fingerfehler", from the German, which
>I first learned when playing tournament chess as a kid, meaning to
>touch the wrong piece -- in tournament play, you have to move the
>first piece you touch? Chess lingo is filled with foreign words,
>especially German.
>
>DanG
>
>On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > "Refudiate" just a typo, Palin now says.  About 2 days ago?  In July,
> > she was apparently saying she wouldn't repudiate (v.) refudiate (v).
> >
> > Of course, F and P are nearly as far away as can be on the customary
> > typewriter keyboard.  She said "I made a finger-failure", thus
> > inventing another English term which has not yet reached the OED. ...
> > Actually, not what she said -- ' "I pressed an F instead of a P and
> > people freaked out," Palin said. '
> >
> http://foolocracy.com/2010/12/refute-repudiate-refudiate-palin-weaves-a-tale-of-typos/
> >
> > And she's apparently redacted her original Tweet.
> >
> > Joel
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