# Conversate, orientate, commentate, what else?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 12, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743 "2013-11-12T19:21:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/21 "2013-11-13T03:24:19Z")
While working in California, I was a _certificated_ teacher. Made me feel downright certifiable.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/22 "2013-11-13T11:50:11Z")
In my opinion if you’re touching base you damn well better be wearing a silly cap and a jockstrap.
mmm
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### Author:  [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/23 "2013-11-13T12:15:06Z")
unpredictable-nothing is unpredictable, it may be unpredicted or virtually impossible to predict accurately but nothing is unpredictable.
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/24 "2013-11-13T12:40:51Z")
Deplaning is a funny word and one I find unnecessary. This is going to border on a Seinfeld-esque observation, but why is removing the people from a plane called deplaning? If putting people on a plane is called boarding, what’s wrong with unboarding or deboarding for when you take them off of the plane? You don’t say that you planed the plane when you get on it, so why do you deplane when you get off? Or you could class things up and just use disembark.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/25 "2013-11-13T21:51:52Z")
Pleaded. As in “Eddie pleaded guilty to hustling.” Um, when did “Pled” become unfashionable? “Pleaded” does not exactly roll off the tongue.
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### Author:  [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/26 "2013-11-13T22:32:52Z")
Irregardless.
How about the word “obvious” - if something is obvious, you should not need to use it. If the thing is not obvious, well, choose another word. By using words like “obviously” you are essentially telling your reader they are too stupid to know so here, let me show you…
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/27 "2013-11-13T23:26:54Z")
> [@Learjeff](#):
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> Orientate bugs me…
Steve Irwin would refer to critters (after he’d picked them up, flipped them upside down, licked them, rubbed their bellies, etc.) as “disorientated.” It was jarring and endearing all at the same time.
I am grateful that the very large corporation I work for has largely avoided confoundizing verbs and nouns. Instead we are cursed with acronyms–often the same acronym will refer to different stuff, so you have to pay attention to context.
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### Author:  [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/28 "2013-11-14T00:26:02Z")
We don’t talk any more. We **reach out to each other** , and not in a touchy-feely way. Sadly.
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### Author:  [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/29 "2013-11-14T00:50:20Z")
Preplanning. All planning is pre- by definition.
I still say pre- is unnecessary when tacked onto any word ending in -ed.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/30 "2013-11-14T00:55:36Z")
Prevented?
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### Author:  [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/31 "2013-11-14T01:10:21Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> Inflammable.
Nah… “flammable” can go.
And “Nah”…
Innit?
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/32 "2013-11-14T01:19:34Z")
I once saw someone use “assassinator” as a word, and I reminded him that someone who assassinates is called an “assassin.”
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### Author:  [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/33 "2013-11-14T01:23:10Z")
> [@Learjeff](#):
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> What word should we use to mean preventative action?
Preventive.
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### Author:  [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/34 "2013-11-14T01:27:09Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#):
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> Preplanning. All planning is pre- by definition.
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> I still say pre- is unnecessary when tacked onto any word ending in -ed.
Even without the -ed. Prerecord is illogical if not impossible.
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### Author:  [@svd678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svd678)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/35 "2013-11-14T01:36:52Z")
I second Reach Out instead of merely calling.
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### Author:  [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/36 "2013-11-14T01:37:47Z")
_Every_ time I listen to one of the corporate overlords talk about “Growing the Business”, I want to smack him or her in the face with a rotting octopus. Just shut the fuck up and let us do our jobs. You’ll be surprised with the results.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/37 "2013-11-14T02:30:14Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#):
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> Preplanning. All planning is pre- by definition.
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> I still say pre- is unnecessary when tacked onto any word ending in -ed.
“The new movie miered last night.”
Doesn’t seem quite right.
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### Author:  [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/38 "2013-11-14T03:15:47Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> “The new movie miered last night.”
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> Doesn’t seem quite right.
“Premiered” is Frechified fancy-shmancy anyway. What happened to “opened?” It’s Like U.S. theaters giving themselves airs by using Theatre in their names.
Homer Simpson caught proper hell from Moe for using “garage” instead of “car hole.”
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/39 "2013-11-14T08:04:07Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> Inflammable.
“Inflammable” was the original word, meaning “capable of being inflamed (i.e. set on fire).” The word “flammable” was derived from it, and is preferred by a lot of people because “inflammable” sounds like it means “not flammable.”
I’ll nominate “seasonable” to mean “seasonal.” I often hear this (and its cousin “unseasonable”) from weather forecasters. I know it’s a long-standing usage, but it sounds wrong to me.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversate-orientate-commentate-what-else/673743/40 "2013-11-14T09:11:52Z")
Ideation.
Never use this word around me in a corporate setting. It lacks imagination and I’ll have a thousand monkeys ideate ways to set you on fire.
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