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Is this going to be a red lipstick? Orangy? Pink? Purple? Black? Will it be a matte color? Pearlized? Wet look?
Here is the apparent formula. First one takes a perfectly innocent noun, just sitting there representing a person, place or thing, and not bothering anybody. Then one molests it by adding "-ize" to the end. This bastard clone is then used as a verb and begets other bastard children, e.g. NOUN+ization.
The possibilities are limitless!
Baconize = to render pig fat palatable. Diamondize = to cut a less-expensive stone to look as brilliant as a diamond. Fictionize = to change the truth into fantasy or lies, esp. by politicians. Dollopize = to separate a semi-liquid into bits. Oraclize = to predict. Poodlize = to breed a useful working dog into a useless show animal.
Where will it ever end!?
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The possibilities are limitless! ... Where will it ever end?
It will end when we limitize "limitless".
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I'm trying to get orientatized around this, Pop...
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I'm trying to get orientatized
You can start by getting your eyes almondized.
BTW occidentalizing one's eyes is a popular surgical procedure in Japan. So almondizing might become a fashion. Who knows?
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The earliest citation in the COED, from 1591, is:
Reprehenders that complain of my boystrous compound wordes and ending my Italionate coyned verbes all in ize.
I'd a thunk y'all'd be used to it by now.
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First one takes a perfectly innocent noun, just sitting there representing a person, place or thing, and not bothering anybody. Then one molests it by adding "-ize" to the end. This bastard clone is then used as a verb and begets other bastard children, e.g. NOUN+ization.
Cute. Interesting metaphor that sees derivative morphology as molestation and unwanted offspring outside of marriage. Words get coined all the time, as you did in your post facetiously, and like many things in life, some get coined for perfectly good reasons and some don't. Usually people are complaining about zero-derivation where a noun is verbed with no attempt at change, (e.g., to architect, to dog), but it seems that indulgence in normally productive suffixes is also suspect, (e.g., to productize, to stringify). I think it really boils down to who controls the language? People who use it, or people who fetishize it? Should the criteria of judging new immigrant words be aesthetic or eugenic? Or something else entirely?
What is the difference between pearlized and pearlified? In what context was the newly coined word used? Did it make sense? &c.
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When almond eyes are smiling, sure, 'tis like a morn in Yokohama. [Hmm. I guess it loses something in the translation.]
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What is the difference between pearlized and pearlified?The same difference as the difference between mummyized and mummified. Kids get mummyized on Hallowe'en. It's a surface treatment. Mummified is the real thing. Cultured pearls are pearlified. Nail polish is pearlized. Are you convertized, Father Steve?
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