Herb - Now Aluminum
sistermagpie
sistermagpie at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 15 18:24:47 UTC 2007
> > 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.
> montims:
> burglarize... hospitalize... in my office they diarize
appointments...
> Ick.
Magpie:
I've never heard "diarize" but burglarize and hospitalize are both
words I've heard my whole life and sound completely normal to me. (As
does "hospitalization" though I've never heard burglarization.) And
of course the 40s classic "moiderize" as in "I'll moiderize ya!"
-m
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