Once again, an occasion to review my favorite apparently made up word, brought to my attention by several of my co-workers, each of whom have advanced degrees in education.
Consequence Used as a verb.
As in, when reviewing updates to student handbooks " should we change how we consequence students for this particular offense?"
Some educationers they are, huh?
I call on all edumacators to refudiate this word or concept.
I’m copastetic with that.
R.I.P, ‘copacetic’. I haven’t heard it pronounced that way in the hood EVER. I still say it that way though, out of respect for the unique history of the word.
Huh. Until I just looked it up right now, I had no idea “copacetic” was non-standard.
Yes, yes, it’s been put into the dictionary, whatever! “We give in because this is so widely used even if incorrect” does NOT make a word correct (I’m looking at YOU >> “I’m nauseous”).
See also PIN number, VIN number, and ATM machine. 
I’m not saying it’s correct, but Fonzy used to say to the nerds: “Conversate with me!”
Fortunately, I don’t have a cite.
The word I hear is complected: as in, “He’s fair complected” or, “She’s dark complected.”
It’s complexioned.
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It gets the Converse rubber stamp of approval
While conversate makes me blink in an oral presentation and I would certainly have issues with it in a written assignment, I have no problems with it in casual speech and in fact am having difficulty understanding why one would.
I for one can’t hear it in a way that doesn’t sound like an old person trying to sound “cool”.
And yet the OP is hearing it from college students who appear to be using it completely straightfaced.
And I shake my head in sadness. Bolding mine.
Oh, CanvasShoes, thank GOD! You got here just in time. Lifetime students of language and respected linguists were languishing under the illusion that there was a case to be made for descriptivism; but now that you have settled the matter, they can relax. Whew.
I’ve observated folks utilizating this word for some time.
Fortunately I always reservate judgment.
But that just begs the question then, doesn’t it?
A lil’ embarrassed to admit this, but;
Although I understand that the ‘wrong’ way people use this phrase, I have never been able to really grasp the ‘right’ way it is supposed to be used.
I have wiki’ed it, but I don’t fully grasp the original usage.
For me also, it’s one of those things like obscenity – I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it! and it drives me crazy when posters here use it when they probably mean “That raises another issue,” or “I think you’ve missed the point”.
This link might help.
Conversate for a few/'cause in a few, we gonna do/what we came to do, ain’t that right, boo?
And that was '95, so I’m sure the “word” comes from before that.