Comments on: Conversate

By: jtz

jtz — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:55:17 +0000

Yeah!!! Three cheers for ” Conversate is NOT a word”. I have spent the last 15 years noticing how ignorant people sound when they say that word. I have corrected all my friends because I do not want them to sound as retarded to another person as they do to me.
How in the hell did this “word of urban legend” make it into Merriums? Thank God I saw your web site and others like it, or I would have lost confidence in all I believe in.
But then again, I thought linguist was another word for oral sex!!! Ha!

By: Conrad

Conrad — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:22:45 +0000

I don’t think I had ever heard the non-word “conversate” until I was in my 30′s and I almost had a stroke.

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:34:22 +0000

bwahahahahaha

By: Damon

Damon — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:22:23 +0000

that’s great stuff … look at what I did to the FRQs … lol.

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:16:19 +0000

So Damon, I take it you don’t like Oswald Bates all that much. LOL.

By: K.

K. — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:48:05 +0000

Okay, this doesn’t fit in with the made up words, but this is a made up meaning…”perpetrate.” Just like you partially blame Biggie for “conversate,” I blame Beyonce for “perpetrate.”

“Goin’ on shoppin’ sprees perpetratin’ to your friends like you be ballin’”

Did someone along the way think that “perpetrate,” because it sounded alot like “impersonate,” had a similar meaning? I don’t know, but it sure bugs the heck out of me.

By: Damon

Damon — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:29:55 +0000

I will make the change just for you Steph (lol), but I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again … I screw up their/there/they’re from time to time when I’m typing fast and not re-reading (which I do often in the comments) … But if you catch one of those wrong in any letter, you have permission to open fire on asyoureditor, then me. lol.

and I hate the “you can’t end a sentence in a preposition” rule. It makes me have to work entirely too hard sometimes. smh.

But that’s life.

By: Steph

Steph — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:24:30 +0000

Damon!
I have one concern.
(You wrote: Needless to say, I was shocked the first time I went to Miami and their were people as dark as I am who couldn’t speak a lick of English ….

I will charge your “THEIR” to your fingers and not your head!
there-their-they’re
Also to the person who hates the “R-ruh” I hate it too and it is hard to get my students to stop saying that.
I also do not like when people end a sentence with a preposition and or leave verbs out: “Where you at?” as opposed to “Where are you”

By: Damon

Damon — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:04:47 +0000

@belle: I had to tell them. I wish you could see the Facebook comments… one of my good friends was just waiting to call me out for using “irregardless” until she saw the correction …

I think I may let Monica tackle “Irregardless” as a post if she wants, which she will. She hates that non-word more than I do. lol.

Thanks for stopping by.

By: Belle

Belle — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:59:42 +0000

“Irregardless”

LOL. i died when i got to that word in this post. you shouldn’t have told, people. just let it stand. you gotta do a post on “irregardless” too. PLEASE

Hilarious. As always.