(CNN) – Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has joined the pantheon of politicians who've made their own additions to the English language.
The former Alaska governor has added to our vocabulary with "refudiates" - assumedly an amalgamation of "refute" and "repudiates." Palin used the new word in a Sunday posting on Twitter that called on Muslims to denounce plans to build a mosque and community center near Ground Zero in New York City.
"Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate," Palin tweeted, according to reports.
The original tweet was deleted and replaced with another that lacked "refudiate": "Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real."
Although she deleted her original tweet, Palin is not distancing herself from her new word. Instead, Palin is embracing it and turning to none other than Shakespeare to justify her linguistic invention.
"'Refudiate,' 'misunderstimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!" Palin tweeted Sunday as the blogosphere started to criticize her for a gaffe.
She alludes to former President George W. Bush's famous utterances of "misunderstimate" during the 2000 campaign and President Barack Obama's use of "wee-wee'd up" to describe Washington's penchant for getting worked up over controversy.
Palin's original tweet remains missing from her Twitter page. Some of Shakespeare's works are lost too.
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I think Sarah Palin thinks 'gaffe' is an animal with a long neck that lives in Africa!
It's ironic that Palin will embrace her OWN bad vocabulary as something quaint...and then defend her bad grammar by comparing HERSELF to Shakespeare??
As Sarah's own budget buster idol Ron Regan said (paraphrase).....
"Sarah...I know Shakespeare (thru his works)...and YOU ARE NO SHAKESPEARE!"
I'm all for the "refudiation" of all the libs who are so threatened by this incredible woman. Just wait until you see the "refudiation" coming this November. You betcha!!!!
Make no mistake – if you misunderstimate me i will become wee-wee'd
Sarah.... put the laptop down. Shouldn't you be helping your daughter plan a wedding????
I remember how the R,s took care of another dummy, Dan,the man,Quayle, he slowly faded into oblivion, why can not they do the same thing with this shrieky voice know nothing, she scammed the people with her so-called comic book and 75,000 for a twenty minute speech about nothing , now take her to an ice flo and be done with this sorry soap opera,Failin Palin in 2012 I can,t wait another Goldwater debacle for the GOP.
Is this honestly worth reporting??? Biden gaffes every time he breathes pretty much. This was just a Twitter post; the whole thing is typed in slang, could have been a typo as well, but who cares anyways?
works in all"57" states.
Oh well , and you expected more from her ....after all she has a brain full of palinisms, right there with all the wink wink , you betcha and I'm a mamma grizzley!
She is the best comic that politics have!
Dumbest woman in politics today. And yet millions would vote her into the White House. That's what's wrong with the US – stupidity is rife.
If this woman is ever elected to another public office then the state or country deserves what it gets.
On this one, can't we just all admit that the woman is an idiot?
Does she represent an illiterate heartland?
Yea "wee weed up"... how about just blaming it on her total lack of intelligence?
Palins' words aren't lost... she totally is! Holy crap is she ever.
So Obama is a horrible president, the worst thing ever to happen America, AND rending the very fabric of our Republic so carefully woven by our forefathers, but she cites him when shows what an ignoramus she is?
However, there's a difference: "wee wee'd up" is obviously a made up word. And don't believe her when she claims poetic license a la Shakespeare. He coined new words on purpose, she on the other hand is a moron who wants to sound intelligent.
Stupefying Sarah should master the English language in ALL it's nuances first. That would include being able to READ it and WRITE it, with AT LEAST an eight grader's grasp of basic grammar, BEFORE she starts introducing Sarah Speak to the menu!!
What needs to be REPUDIATED is her half-ass attempt at convering up her linguistic inadequacies, and defficiencies by trying to CREATE a new language whose word meanings only she is privy to......much like her thoughts!
Now I suppose they'll have to add the word "Palinism" as a synonym for "Bushism" when referring to a person who makes up their own nonsensical jargon because they can't say or remember the real multisylable words.
Didn't realize Sarah cared about NYC. Thought it wasn't part of the "Real America" she loves so dearly.
Make no mistake – if you somehow you "misunderstimate" me i will become "wee-wee'd up" and say some bad things AND then someone will ask me to pls refudiate.
What's wrong with the word invention of someone whose a known dipshititis?
Ah... you bunch of educated elitists! Insisting that words make sense!! That's just un-American – donchaknow – wink... and also.
Look at this list and draw your own conclusions ...
Senator E. Dirkson, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, Spiro Agnew, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, John Beoner, Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Michelle Bachman! Notice how the curve slopes downward. What has happened to the GOP?
Even though she nauseates me, normally I'd say "so what", don't you have anything better to do than jump on typos? But if she's going to celebrate her illiteracy, as did W....then I'd say, pounce away.
It doesn't matter though– her fan base doesn't really know what any of those words mean anyway.
President Obama meant to say wee wee up, but you Sara Palin you said the wrong word because you are stupid.
What about her writing on her hand and her trying to make joke about that. This woman is plan stupid.
Dumberer.
I guesstimate she's trying to intolerancify her base for politicalist gain.
Just another example of the dangers of stream-of-conciousness Twittering for the intellectually challenged!