A few days ago
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When are people going to learn “Conversate” is not a word?

The word “Conversate” annoys me. I hear more and more people using this word, which does not exist in the English language.

Google “conversate” and literate fun stuff like this pop’s up;

Quoted from; http://www.tdotwire.com/profile.php?user_id=72985

“You gotta come at me wit an intelligent conversation, if u cant converstae wit me,no way in hell would i take anything to tha next level”

Wow that’s amazing “intelligent conversation” she says.. Hmmmmmm

The best definition I have found comes from the Urban dictionary;

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=conversate

conversate

To sate *or satisfy* someone’s need for conversation. Opposite of convothirst. Often used in ebonics to add a “intellectual” flare to their speech.

girl 1: “Girl, we needs to conversate.”

girl 2: “fer reals, did you see how fake her breasteses were?”

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A few days ago
oldsalt

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Languages change over time; however, the American version of English is circling the drain at an exponentially increasing rate, along with our educational system.

Unfortunately for many people, their failure to learn the language (and mathematics) will often result in lower-paying jobs and a bleak future. This is not a snobbish attitude; it is fact.

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6 years ago
Anonymous
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When are people going to learn “Conversate” is not a word?
The word “Conversate� annoys me. I hear more and more people using this word, which does not exist in the English language

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4 years ago
Anonymous
Define Conversate
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A few days ago
devyl gyrl
Webster’s New Millennium™ Dictionary of English – Cite This Source

Main Entry: conversate

Part of Speech: v

Definition: to socialize and chat; to converse with another

Etymology: back-formation from conversation

Usage: slang

Webster’s New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7)

Copyright © 2003-2007 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC

So, technically, it IS a word.

However, I too find it annoying. Just as i find the phrases “who this is” (as in “what do you mean, who this is”), and “aks” instead of “ask,” and “You is” instead of “You are” annoying!

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A few days ago
Dennis B
That’s a very insegrevious question. I will congeviate on it.
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6 years ago
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When people stop butchering the English language.
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A few days ago
Manz
make them learn that it is ‘converse’ with.
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A few days ago
kahlan nynaeve®
when they finally figured out that converse is the verb to be used.
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A few days ago
bruce_eel
yea its slang.

don’t use it in a formal writing but its fine to use in every day conversation. v

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A few days ago
Anonymous
why would you aks such a question?
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