Conversate is a made up word. The word is "converse"
 

I've only heard "conversate" (and now "conversating") used a handful of times, but it is one of those things that grates on my nerve when I hear it.

I was very surprised to hear it out of a school teacher online the most recent time.

So is nucular... it's nuclear, you $%$#%s

How about using minus as a verb?

That's a good one.

It reminds me of using "up" as a verb. If you look it up, you'll see it listed as a verb, but using it as a verb meaning "to raise, lift, or increase something" makes my skin crawl a bit. I wonder if that became valid due to common use or if it has always been valid.

LOL.... up yours :D!

Our GM at work uses the word simular. Seriously.

I used to hear conversate frequently in the Army. Usually said by enlisted folks.

One of my personal favs: irregardless

I also have some family members that pronounce "accept" as uh-sept rather than ack-cept

There's an ad on tv where pizza is used as a verb.

Stop it.

Had a manager that used subjugate instead of subject.

Don't get me started on "irregardless". Regardless means "without regard" "ir" is a negative prefix.
My boss 25 years ago used to come out with it from time to time.

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Les

Say to school teacher "That's the excellentist new word in a long time."

Converse is a shoe, not a word. Sheesh.

Consider "terrific" and it's root. Horror, horrible and horrific all refer to fear/shock etc.

Terror and terrible are also fear related so how did terrific come to mean the opposite?

This thread is "bad azz" :D

I used to work with a guy who at least 5 times a week during our meetings would say copastetic instead of copacetic

He was a Mensa member and Cornell law graduate

"could care less":rolleyes:

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You're sick.

I kind of get ^those^ two as they are, I believe, probably mispronunciation due to local accents. They grate on my nerves a little less. It's also like "yuge" vs "huge" and (a little more grating) "aks" vs "ask."
I believe you run into something similar when you look at awesome and awful. Both are still related to the root, but have taken somewhat different directions that aren't exactly in the spirit of the original meaning.

Did he get mad when you laughed at him?

I laughed, and I was not even there to hear it

and "walla", there you have it.

The French expression, "Voila": https://www.thoughtco.com/voila-vocabulary-1371436

And since when is "build" a noun?

"ahm a-fixen tuh gonna mek dis Build essra 'pechial".

OK, Skunkworks. I'm very sure you probably designed the A-12 "Build" in your garage.....

Déja vu or chassis
I bet most of you guy don't know how to pronounce that correctly.
I cringe every time I hear déja voo and tjassi...

According to Merriam-Webster: Conversate is a word that has been used for over 200 years.

That said: my spell check says it is not. Weird. You would think vocabulary would be easy to agree on but I guess not.

Omitting "to be" - as in "needs fixed" instead of "needs to he fixed"

This is 'merica, we don't haftagree on nuthin'. ;)

As youse guys conversate about this.... I'll just keep my mouth shut and listenate in. Mebbe I'll learniate sumthin' :D

Aren't all words "made up" ;)?

Do y'all like my incorrect use of quotes instead of an apostrophe? I know it's incorrect, and only do it here on PPOT, but yet I do....

If you're "getting ready" to do something, what do you say?

Stephanie will get this ;)

Smartphone.

This is right there with "have to". ex. "I have to go to the store" or sometimes pronounced "half to" in the south. ;)

Add the phrase, "Take and" to the beginning of any sentence as in, "Take and add some Tobasco to that there guacamole".

Agreed. If you could, why don’t you?

Another one is the difference between “bring” and “take”. I hear those misused quite a bit.

Supposedly has become supposably.

A buddy of mine and I will trade mispronounced words on occasion, and this thread is 'zactly why we do it. :D:p

Irregardless...wait, do I regard that? :cool:

I just think it's funny.

I could understand in a strict business setting someone engagermalaging in such manner as being tyrsum.

But in the right environment, such as discussing a circle track race, it is perfect.

Gettrdun!

The Brits pronounce "schedule" correctly.
But their "maths" is plural and I'm not sure what a "lawyerer" is.

It's then and than that gets me going.

meh...

Why do many people begin their sentences with,"So..."?

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Les

Another pronunciation that gets me is the word height.

I know a few folks that say hi-thhhh just like width.

Nails on a chalkboard for me.

You know....

Watching some "March Madness" games this past weekend, quite a few announcers kept referring to the player's "lengths" instead :D.

Now I know they could have been taking into account their arm reach too... but I don't think so.

IDK about Stephanie but us nawthunuhs say "fixin ta"