Refudiate Latin?

"Edward Caudex"
Subject: Re: [Latinteach] Refudiate Latin?
To: The teaching of the Latin Language
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"Mrs. Palin's (on-again, off-again, prospective mother-in-law) has situated herself in the best Rabelaisian-Shakespearean-Dodgsonian-Joycean tradition by introducing this coinage into the discourse on Factio Theana-American-Muslim relations. The refute-repudiate-refuse portmanteau incorporates the etyma

"-pud-"

(foot) and

"-fut-"

(the other fut related to 'battuere' and 'futuere').

"Unfortunately, Sarah is probably as clueless about all this as are the journalists. She probably thinks (whatever she may say) that it was a slip of the tongue or an instance of misspeaking rather than a devastating Parthian shot at the
multi-culturalists."

"Those who know what the bottom of the foot and the foot of the bottom mean in some cultures will realize how devastating."

"Btw, all these terms are conceptually related. If "refuse" is from 'refundo' rather than recuso, refuto, it means "fling back" rather than "bat back.""