documentate!!

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:58 AM -0800 3/28/05, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
>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

Isn't "orientate" more or less standard usage in the U.K.?  I seem to
have heard that claim at some point.

Larry

>
>>>>  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
>>