Did you by any chance mean one of these? condensate, conversant, converse
Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. African American Vernacular To converse, to have conversation.
Etymologies
- Back-formation from conversation. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Maybe he thought "conversate" sounded more formal or that it related to some subset of normal conversation or that it described a specific act of conversing in some altered state.”
“I bring up the two similar suffixes because of two equally perplexing constructs I've encountered this week: "conversate" and "medicant".”
“Even as I'm typing out this post, Firefox is angrily underlining "conversate" and insisting I change it to "conversation", "conversant" (we'll hold off on that one) or "converse".”
“We would try to conversate with them enough to find out exactly what it is they were missing in their lives, and somehow tie school to that.”
“(Soundbite of laughter) MARTIN: Dont player hater, just conversate.”
NPR: 'Shop Talk': Should Kendrick Meek Stay In Florida Senate Race?
“(Soundbite of laughter) MARTIN: Just conversate instead of prognosticate?”
NPR: 'Shop Talk': Should Kendrick Meek Stay In Florida Senate Race?
“(Soundbite of song, "Next Time") COMMON (Hip-Hop Artist, Actor): We conversate (ph) and talk about life in South Dakota, that tonight was just right for us.”
“TNC: Will conversate be included after the next revision of the OED?”
“Well, check yourself before you wreck yourself, the OED (the Oxford English Dictionary) is considering including the word - conversate, as in we be conversating.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘conversate’.
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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outcasts
Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.
I wrote a little script that runs every day. It searches the Twitter API for tweets containing the words, "is not a word". Each (non...unfollow, suppose-ably, qirl, darkskin, haz, stoints, uglyer, boringest, fustrating, linx, yolo, excapes and 22609 more...
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Something is wrong here
Spelling mistakes and other verbal blunders
abolishment, aerobic numbers, affidavid, all of the sudden, alphabeticalize, anticlimatic, anchors away, arm's way, artical, ashfault, assumably, baited breath and 176 more...
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Rubbies
Words and things that rub me wrong
eclectic, canon, flesh, irregardless, conversate, can't, mandatory, war on christmas, male bonding, pissa, parochial, infallible and 98 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Niels's Words
bien-pensant, pro re nata, zeitgeist, naïve, quod erat demonst..., dramastic, mélange, amanuensis, heuristic, hermeneutic, gist, gumption and 157 more...
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BINGO!
Entries from the corporate hall of shame. (There are many wordie versions of this list - please link to yours in the comments section - thanks!)
to architect, to incentivize, drill down, loop back, low-hanging fruit, pre-plan, customer-focused, best of brand, conversate, think outside the..., paradigm shift, going forward and 99 more...
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neologish
neologisms, etc.
pop culture that has invaded my brain.ishtar, d'oh, jump the shark, truthiness, ginormous, muggle, craptacular, spam, cyberspace, email, excellent, boo yah and 20 more...
Tweets
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