Another non-word

[robinturner]

It gets worse. I've just heard Ozzy Osbourne use the word "confrontate". And as a transitive verb too: "Don't you f***ing confrontate me!" A heavy metal musician really shouldn't be indulging in gratuitious affixation. It shoud have been "Don't you f***ing f*** with me!" Or as our old guitarist put it so eloquently, "F***ing f***-f***!"

Comments

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

Yeah, someone needs to tell him not to f***ing affixate.

[solri.livejournal.com]

And if he affixatizes, I'll optimize his f***ing face event!

[ex-myst341.livejournal.com]

Confrontate? Confrontate?? ::roll eyes::

Anyway, you might like this: http://www.fuck.addr.com/news/word/larry.html

[alsoname.livejournal.com]

Are we not allowed to say fuck in this journal?

How do you feel about conversate?

[solri.livejournal.com]

I just liked the asterisks. Though I suppose there's the possibility that some of my students could be shocked. If they complain, I'll just say "I'm a f***ing linguist, for f***'s sake, so I have to be able to talk about f***ing words like f***, right?"

"Conversate" is a f***ing f***ed-upped verb.

[alsoname.livejournal.com]

Apparently conversate is totally normal in a lot of U.S. English dialects, though I've never heard it until relatively recently.

Do you have an opinion on advancement?

[alexgal.livejournal.com]

orientate<orient has become completely natural by now, too.

[solri.livejournal.com]

"Advancement" sounds like it ought to be a word, but I can't work out how it would be different from "advance". I mean I wouldn't go to my boss and ask for an advancement on my wages, or talk about the Visigoths' advancement on Rome, so there must be some difference.

[alsoname.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more along the lines of "advancements in technology."

According to Webster's, it's been a word since the 1500s.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Can't argue with that.

[brigid-shine.livejournal.com]

i rather like the word confrontate. yes, i plan on using it liberally this week, whenever and wherever i can. is that how you spell wherever? k.

[oblomova.livejournal.com]

That's rock stars for ya. Fred Durst said something about how he hoped we were all in "agreeance" that the war in Iraq was a bad idea.

I said "fuck" on the streets yesterday in front of (well, actually behind) a little girl and her dad. I felt bad about it. But it's a city, so she's gonna hear it sooner or later. And it wasn't in an angry context. I was telling a friend about Jon Stewart's joke that the World Series this year should be the Cubs and the Red Sox, they should play 28 innings, and then decide that both teams have waited so long for championships that they split the title "and then everyone fucks."

[soliss.livejournal.com]

As the Simpsons put it this evening...

It's idiomatic, biatch!