Herb - Now Aluminum

[Steve]

---  "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> bboyminn wrote:
> <snip "liberry" comment>
> > Another thing that chafes my shorts it the creation
> > of fake words to try and either make yourself sound
> > more intelligent, or to obscure a point. These words
> > typically are normal words with '-ize', '-isation',
> '-ate', or other equally pointless suffixes added.
> 
> Carol responds:
> ...
> 
> I have a friend who thinks that "applicator" should 
> be "applier" because whatever substance is being 
> applied is not being "applicated." (Actually, I 
> think the same thing, but he's the one who brought it up.)
> 

bboyminn:

I'm thinking of pseudo-words like - using your example -
'applicatorization or 'applierize'. People in business
are alway doing this. One place I worked used the term
'levelize' all the time, I never bothered to find out
what it means. 

In case you didn't know 'levelizing' is the process of
'levelization'. 

I can't really think of any common real-life examples,
I do make an effort to forget them when I hear them.

Steve/bbo