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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Speaking of Sarah (I can't get enough!), on her Alaska show she revised her
proverbial utterance to make it seem that it's even easier to turn rout into
victory:

"Don't retreat. Just reload."

I believe the "just" is new.  Anyway, she got it in while Bristol was
shooting skeet. The skeet didn't seem very threatening, but then I wasn't
there.

JL
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Joel
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> OK then. Did you mean Fingerfehler when you wrote "finger-failure"?
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> 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.
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> Fingerfehler, on the other hand, has its own (German) Wiki page.
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> DanG
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> 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.
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> >>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).
> >> >
> >> > 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.
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> >> > Joel
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