Talk:conversate
Latest comment: 16 years ago by Connel MacKenzie in topic conversate
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The word is converse. You can have a conversation, but you can't conversate. Jooge 20:41, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- “conversate” is now cited as a word in African American Vernacular English. Rod (A. Smith) 20:43, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- Keep; I hear this word with some regularity. --EncycloPetey 20:55, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- I think it is worth noting that a b.g.c. search doesn't show many uses but shows quite a few style-guide proscriptions. I did see a valid-looking adjective use from 1891, but we don't give any definition for that. --Connel MacKenzie 21:37, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- That adjective-looking cite is a mistake on b.g.c.'s part — a scanno, I guess, but not how I usually think of scannos — it results from the cutting off of the leftmost several-characters'-width. (b.g.c. got "conversate" from "convers[hyphen][linebreak]ation; the politics" by losing the "ation; th" part.) —RuakhTALK 01:04, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
- Good catch, thanks. --Connel MacKenzie 07:10, 4 August 2007 (UTC)