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I've always seen the distinction as one of reflexive vs. [can't think of word - presentive(?)].
I orient myself in the Shawnee Nat'l Forest using a compass and the stars.
I orientate new students in(to) the MFA program.
I guess there's an official orientation program in the second instance, and that's what makes the difference. Does this make an ounce of sense? It should be said that I bridle at 'orientate' because it does seem a superfluous affix.
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I nearly blew coffee right out my prodigious schnozz when I read tsuwm's link. It hadn't even occurred to me to read the word in the previous post as a synonym of "inhabitant of the United States of America." I guess because I always spell it 'murikan (which still sounds to me like something out of Tolstoy's short story 'Hadji Murad'). How very entertaining.
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Ironical is pure dreck, imnsho.
but are lackadaisical, etc? What's the rule (presuming there is one) that regulates whether the -al gets affixed to the word? Are these all adjectives that have been created by lopping the adverbial suffix off?
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