Someone who 'refudiates' "refudiate"
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Palindrome: "Refudiate 'refudiate'"
Gricean explanation of the pragmatic contradiction. "Seeing that you are 'refudating' 'refudate', you cannot do it."
Why?
Well, because if you refudiate the neologism, 'refudiate', you are NOT refudiating it.
You can rebut it, refuse it, refute it, or repudiate it, but never refudiate it, at least with a straight face.
Odd.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
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