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

[Dan Goncharoff]

Joel

OK then. Did you mean Fingerfehler when you wrote "finger-failure"?

I have seen a news report from London talk about "fat finger failure"
in the context of pressing the wrong button entering an order to buy
or sell stock in an electronic entry system, but the phrase doesn't
seem to have any widespread popular use.

Fingerfehler, on the other hand, has its own (German) Wiki page.

DanG

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Joel
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> 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
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>>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).
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>> > 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/
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>> > And she's apparently redacted her original Tweet.
>> >
>> > Joel
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