GOM
living vicariously
Orientate is one, and just heard someone say interpretate !!!
Is this the modern way, just stick an ...ate on the end of everything ?
Is this the modern way, just stick an ...ate on the end of everything ?
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[Misc] Proliferation of the unnecessary/wrong .....ate
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schmunk
"Members"
This thread is grate.
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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I think it's shate.
Strangely, I already Googled "disoriented or disorientated" for a piece I was writing this morning, but got no clear answer.
Just suggestions that one is more British and the other more American, or that one is a verb and the other an adjective.
It sounds better without the "ate", though.
Just suggestions that one is more British and the other more American, or that one is a verb and the other an adjective.
It sounds better without the "ate", though.
mikeyjh
Well-known member
I'd add 'Obligate(d)' when people mean oblige(d)
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,300
interesting topic to ruminate on.
el punal
Well-known member
So how are Leyton Orientate doing?
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
Yup, it's become proflig in recent days.
Kalimantan Gull
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spongy
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To orientate to me means to point something in a certain direction.
Orientated means it's pointing in a certain direction.
It's similar to the word velocity in some respects.
With my knowledge of English I would say interpretate is just a complete misspelling/misuse of a word. Proved by the fact that when I wrote it I had a red squiggle under it saying it's a spelling mistake.
Interpret is a word.
Interpreted is the other.
Interpretate isn't a word.
It's like people who write "defiantly" on social media. Then others sometimes correct them and say its "definately". When it's DEFINITELY. As in FINITE. End of.
And I was a grade C in GCSE English Language in 1995.
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maltaseagull
Well-known member
Stop pontificating about the use of ate!
Good point.
Orient
Orientation
Violate
Violation not violatation
Rotate
Rotation not rotatation
English is a funny old language. I often consternate over it.
