Re: Come to Sarah Palin's defense
Subject: Re: Come to Sarah Palin's defense
From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
Date: 7/19/10, 01:31
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

Looks like she found the wordsmith defense herself, or her tweet-writer did; now that would be a cool job; maybe Rauhauser can hook me up with a dopey political celebrity in need of tweet services, no scarcity of those among the Dems, esp in Illinois.



On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Looks like Sullivan got sick during his vacation to bear land; perhaps he had time to read my book, then!

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/07/back-from-bear-week.html


On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, I think refudiate is pretty neat. We would have to come up with a new definition for it, but then it's a go.


On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> wrote:
All these guys jumping on Sarah Palin for "refudiate" need to pull the corncobs from their assholes and give her some credit. Language evolves, just as, as you have pointed out to me, cultural entities in general evolve. Just the other day we were here discussing  eggcorns, which are neologisms, neologisms being a well-recognized feature in the evolution of language. Refudiate is plainly such a neologism, putting Sarah in the good company of Martin Peretz. Whatever Mrs. Palin's own view of evolution, she is here practicing it herself, with charming results. I like it; I think I will start using it. I like aciduously, too. 

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> wrote:
For Cole, though a popular blogger, is certainly
not sensible and he has, on many issues, kept himself
acidulously ill-informed. Smart he is, however,
though mostly in his efforts to get to the top of the
heap of popular experts about the Arabs.

Do you want to toss in a [sic] after aciduously?

It is quoted correctly, see http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/the-daily-him

See incidentally: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=9343 , which leaves open the possibility that this is artfulness, not error, but in this case I kinda doubt it.

Reminds me of a late friend who spontaneously improved our language, moving earth with a bullnoser, hearing a heliwopter fly above---my favorite was the not fully formed inhabitant of a womb: a feetless.




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Barrett Brown
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