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Thirties Child

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18. Sounds like another made-up word from the Internets

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sun Oct 22, 2017, 11:16 AM

Oct 2017

My vote is always for the simplest easiest way to say it. I think that the less educated are often far more eloquent than the over educated. When my job was to turn social worker language into English, organizationalization won the prize for most amazing word. Limitate for limit didn't stand a chance. Funeralize may be Elizabethan (or post-Elizabethan?), but it sounds like it's from the same kind of mind that spawned organizationalization.

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"funeralize"? [View all] CTyankee Oct 2017 OP

I don't think a dead person can be funeralized malaise Oct 2017 #1

I see your point but in a way it could mean "to have a funeral conducted over." CTyankee Oct 2017 #3

I guess it could malaise Oct 2017 #6

As in, "He medaled in the Olympics?" I agree with you. Never a verb! Glorfindel Oct 2017 #8

Yep malaise Oct 2017 #9

There's a certain logic that I see in "medaled." But come to think of it, it's pretty CTyankee Oct 2017 #10

The logic is what I call malaise Oct 2017 #20

Years ago, the late great Edwin Newman, in one... 3catwoman3 Oct 2017 #12

I woke up this morning... TeeYiYi Oct 2017 #26

I really don't like the word. But I suppose it's no worse than "eulogize" or "memorialize" Glorfindel Oct 2017 #2

I think "eulogize" and "memorialize" are very well accepted and are in my CTyankee Oct 2017 #4

Getting ready for you now.... Turbineguy Oct 2017 #5

The people using it today were good liberals. They were saying it respectfully. CTyankee Oct 2017 #7

Two of the most segregated places oswaldactedalone Oct 2017 #11

Yes, IIRC the other person who used the the term was an African-American... CTyankee Oct 2017 #13

Yes. If you find the word in Merriam Webster, janx Oct 2017 #15

It's not revived. Igel Oct 2017 #14

I wouldn't call it a neologism since neo means new and if anything this is an old CTyankee Oct 2017 #16

Yeah, but it's a transitive verb. janx Oct 2017 #17

You nailed it malaise Oct 2017 #21

I don't know... TeeYiYi Oct 2017 #27

I understand that language changes. janx Oct 2017 #29

Sounds like another made-up word from the Internets Thirties Child Oct 2017 #18

"organizationalize" is horrible. Limitate doesn't make any sense. Limit works CTyankee Oct 2017 #19

Someone really needs to start a band and call it "funeralized". Initech Oct 2017 #22

I want to vomitize this euphemism Orrex Oct 2017 #23

you confiscatized my answer. grantcart Oct 2017 #25

That leaves me comfortized. janx Oct 2017 #30

"funeralize"... TeeYiYi Oct 2017 #24

I first encountered it in the 70's, used by the black community where I worked. It's odd, but ancianita Oct 2017 #28