Fake words--Herb - Now Aluminum

[Amanda Geist]

Can everyone tell I'm cleaning out my inbox?

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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.

Amanda:

I work for a government contractor, so we have things "impacting" others
(noun as verb) and lots of -ize (my current favorite is "operationalize").

I've noticed one in the Stephen Fry audiobooks, so it must be a British
usage; I can't remember what it was, but it's on the order of "commentate"
for "comment" or "orientate" for "orient." It's insidious-this is what
linguistic change is all about, small usages accumulating over time.

~A



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