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[quote=briansd1]Does it bother you when people mangle the English language? It does me.
It’s inexcusable for native English speakers to constantly make bloopers.
Refudiate, misunderestimate, nukular, irregardless, etc.
Sure, we all make typing mistakes sometimes; but educated people don’t speak like that, regardless of political party affiliation.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/07/palin-invents-word-compares-he.html http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/07/refudiate_sarah_palins_new_pol.html?hpid=moreheadlines
What’s your pet peeve?[/quote] Funny. Saw a filler piece on TV the other day about the same thing … that and Obama’s “corpse man”.
