Fake words-- Grandilizated

[Steve]

---  "Amanda Geist" <editor at ...> wrote:
  
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> I'm thinking of pseudo-words like - using your example
> - 'applicatorization or 'applierize'. People in 
> business are alway doing this.
> 
> 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").
> 
> ...

bboyminn:

I was listening to testimony before the 9-11 commission
and a committee member asked about the 
'potentialization' of something, when what he really
meant was simply 'potential'. 

This is sort of a form of 'word inflation'. When a
simple word doesn't sound grand enough, you simply
make it more complicated.

So, it's not really word inflation, it's word
inflationalization. 

Ain't life grand, or perhaps, I should say,
ain't life grandilizated. 

Steve/bboyminn