[Misc] Proliferation of the unnecessary/wrong .....ate

[GOM]

Orientate is one, and just heard someone say interpretate !!!

Is this the modern way, just stick an ...ate on the end of everything ?

 

[schmunk]

This thread is grate.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

This thread is grate.

I think it's shate.

 

[Fungus]

Strangely, I already Googled "disoriented or disorientated" for a piece I was writing this morning, but got no clear answer.

Just suggestions that one is more British and the other more American, or that one is a verb and the other an adjective.

It sounds better without the "ate", though.

 

[mikeyjh]

I'd add 'Obligate(d)' when people mean oblige(d)

 

[Mellotron]

Uh oh. Looks like Ategate is happening.

 

[GOM]

Strangely, I already Googled "disoriented or disorientated" for a piece I was writing this morning, but got no clear answer.

Just suggestions that one is more British and the other more American, or that one is a verb and the other an adjective.

It sounds better without the "ate", though.

Orientate is another term for orient, hence the unnecessary ...ate.

 

[beorhthelm]

interesting topic to ruminate on.

 

[bhafc99]

Definitely a thread to, um, "master"...

 

[el punal]

So how are Leyton Orientate doing?

 

[Juan Albion]

Yup, it's become proflig in recent days.

 

[Giraffe]

I hateate

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Orientate is one, and just heard someone say interpretate !!!

Is this the modern way, just stick an ...ate on the end of everything ?

so what word would you use instead of 'orientation' ?

 

[neilbard]

Yep, I ate a dictionary.

 

[spongy]

Orientate is one, and just heard someone say interpretate !!!

Is this the modern way, just stick an ...ate on the end of everything ?

To orientate to me means to point something in a certain direction.

Orientated means it's pointing in a certain direction.

It's similar to the word velocity in some respects.

With my knowledge of English I would say interpretate is just a complete misspelling/misuse of a word. Proved by the fact that when I wrote it I had a red squiggle under it saying it's a spelling mistake.

Interpret is a word.

Interpreted is the other.

Interpretate isn't a word.

It's like people who write "defiantly" on social media. Then others sometimes correct them and say its "definately". When it's DEFINITELY. As in FINITE. End of.

And I was a grade C in GCSE English Language in 1995.

 

[maltaseagull]

Stop pontificating about the use of ate!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

so what word would you use instead of 'orientation' ?

Good point.

Orient
Orientation
Violate
Violation not violatation
Rotate
Rotation not rotatation

English is a funny old language. I often consternate over it.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

To orientate to me means to point something in a certain direction.

Orientated means it's pointing in a certain direction.

It's similar to the word velocity in some respects.
.

No it isn't.

 

[PeterOut]

Orientate appears in the OED - if it's good enough for them...

 

[GOM]

so what word would you use instead of 'orientation' ?

none. That is perfectly fine. There is no unnecessary or wrong use of ....ate