Planification? (Speaking of invented words...)
Carol
justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 21 22:53:14 UTC 2007
anita_hillin wrote:
<snip>
>
> I was listening to NPR (National Public Radio, if you're not from
the US), and they were interviewing Bernard Kouchner, <snip> and I
could SWEAR he said, "We have no plan and no planification for
invading Iran."
>
<snip>
> Hmm, I'm going to have to find a place to use "planification," just
for fun.
Carol responds:
"Planification?" I love it. I wonder whether the verb form is
"planify" (analoguous to "stratify"/"stratification") or "planificate"
(a direct back formation). And would it mean "plan to plan"?
As for "Sortation Center" (Lee's response, which I didn't quote here),
we'll just have to write to the postal service and tell them it's
"Sortification Center," where they "sortify" (or is it "sortificate"?)
the mail. Right, Lee?
Carol, who is, of course, joking and hopes this doesn't post twice
because she may have hit "Send" prematurely when the phone rang
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