documentate!!

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

I hear orientate all the time--I think there are a lot of people who do not even know 'orient'.  Maybe they do and avoid it because of the ethnic connotation.
Fritz

>>> langwidge at EROLS.COM 03/26/05 04:42PM >>>
>From a lurker in Baltimore:

Are orientate, documentate, conversate, etc. becoming more common?

I hear them used more frequently now than I did several years ago.

Or perhaps they're actually words???

Christine Gray


>  "conversate" for "converse" (v.)

Isn't "conversate" slang? Since I was a teenager, this has been used in
the sense of "sweet-talk" v.

-Wilson Gray

> would be more comparable (20,000 supposed hits by naive Google).
> Anyway, many 'errors' or 'nonstandard variants' (of various types),
> even
> very common ones and even ones which have been in use for a long time,
> are
> excluded from the dictionaries. Any question of whether or not this is
> 'good' I'll leave to R. H. Fiske et al.
>
> -- Doug Wilson
>