Monday, July 19, 2010

New Palin words to enrich English vocabulary

The gist: Sarah Palin of Fox News, former governor of Alaska, misused the word "refute" and made it "refudiated" instead.


"'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!" she tweeted.

Now, people are making their own Palin words. Check it out:
  • Palindrone: prose that make as much sense backwards as it does forwards.
  • Palinated: (read pay-li-n-ated) to divide a supporting group by playing to what is thought to be the lowest common denominators. Also to feel ostracised by a superior's dubious competence.
  • Palings: mindless sympathisers; or those surrounding oneself preventing proper introspection and meta-thought; mental delusions (or railings) that protect against the crushing reality that would reveal ones own incompetence
  • Inpaling: to make a truth claim, but to have it refuted in the next or same sentence. Also to commit political suicide through bad use of argument.
  • Palinpset: tedious slogans to support an ailing political campaign that have been scraped off and used again, and again and again.
  • Expalin: (Alt. Espalin). An answer that is incoherent, tangentially skewed, or mindless drivel that bears no relation to the question asked. Usage: "Thats a good question, let me expalin..."
  • Palien: A Palin supporter
  • Palient: Only makes sense to a Palien.
  • Palientology: Speaks for itself really.
Okay, enough of this.

'Till my next installment.

[Source: Reddit / Photo: AP]

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