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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Verb this #123719 02/23/04 08:16 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage OP Carpal Tunnel OP Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040220/FACTS20/ And remember, orient is a verbed noun, orientate has spent its entire English language existence as a verb. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Verb this #123720 02/24/04 01:00 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Good article, David. And, yes, I find orientate makes a marvellous verb. Orient is east of me ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Verb this #123721 02/24/04 01:03 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont orientate makes a marvellous verb run away! formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Verb this #123722 02/24/04 01:08 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Nope! Orientate is a ditch to die in ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Verb this #123723 02/24/04 01:10 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage OP Carpal Tunnel OP Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 I'm waiting patiently for the back formation 'orientatation.' Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Verb this #123724 02/24/04 01:14 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok I'm sure that someone will oblige. Be patient! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter needing to ort oneself #123725 02/24/04 01:23 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California J jheem veteran jheem veteran J Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California Orient is from the present participle oriens 'rising' from the deponent verb orior, the past particple of which is ortus. So, the verb should be ort and the noun should be ortion. But that never happened, so we have to settle for the strange word orientate and its noun orientation. If you don't accept one, you shouldn't accept the other. Sure, it violates the grammar of Latin, but then so does the word bus from omnibus. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Verb this #123726 02/24/04 05:00 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky the strange word orientate A--HA! So there, CK--put that in your pipe and smoke it! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: needing to ort oneself #123727 02/25/04 02:04 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland wsieber old hand wsieber old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland it violates the grammar of Latin a living language violating a dead one - is that necrophilia? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: needing to ort oneself #123728 02/25/04 02:29 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Would that verb form be 'necrophiliate'? Faldo, let's just get as gritty-grating as possible and propose the verb orientationize Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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