UM Vice President Foley “refudiates”
Here’s UM Executive Vice President Jim Foley on the long wait alerting people to the emergency on the University of Montana campus:
When asked about the delay, UM Executive Vice President Jim Foley said that “all appropriate authorities – meaning the city police, the sheriff’s office, public safety, and administrators at U of M – we gathered together to make risk assessments and decisions related to emergency response notifications and investigation of any threat. Those processes were followed in this case, and from the law enforcement standpoint, the investigation will continue.”
I think that’s refudiating the question.
– Keila Szpaller
July 21st, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Are you guys really going to dignify the non-word “refudiate”?
I have nothing against coining new words, and would agree that english is a living language. Normally, though, when a new word is coined, it is to adapt to some new reality (access as a verb) or the result of some cultural phenomenon (sexting or D’oh!), and not, as in this case, simply a slippery way not to acknowledge a mistake.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:36 am
Keila — was ‘refudiate’ a dig on Sarah Palin, but some people missed the original story?
Thanks,
Hazy memory here,
Elgee.
July 26th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Yep, that’s Palin’s word, but it seems official mumbo-jumbo comes in many forms!