Chortles refudiate frumiously.
Recall Carnap's example taken up by Grice, "Pirots karulise elatically". Now, Palin was onto something. An online source provides a 'meaning postulate' alla Old Carnap for her neologism:
"a conjunction of repudiate (i.e., renounce the planned building) and refute (i.e., dispute the notion that it is necessary and appropriate at that exact location)."
So what's the buzz?
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Does anyone believe she intended to coin a new word?
ReplyDeleteDid she say whether she intended to?
Sounds like she just got muddled and used a non-word, and probably didn't have exactly the meaning in mind that one might chose if he really did want to invent that word.
Well, for the record, she just 'tweeted': "refudiate". Soon enough, she deleted her tweet. This tweet deletion may indeed indicate, "I did not mean, 'refudiate'". Later, she compared herself to Shakespeare, refudiating her former self, as it were.
ReplyDeleteThe Oxford English Dictionary (c) has selected 'refudiate' the word of the year. So they should know. Whatever she meant-nn, in Grice's sense, she did it!
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