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I don't wish to sound rude......but what in conflation are you guys talking about!!? 
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I use conflate when I want to leave people wondering exactly what I mean. And I use it properly, i.e. in the sense of melding things together. No one has EVER asked me what I mean ... 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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And hello to you, too, Keiva! Your verse bears repeating...
Teresa says, inebriety/sobriety/society/propriety ... variety!
Good to say, "Hiya,T! There's no impiety
in the contrariety carpals display.
Still, I've anxiety.
Each notariety
Has reached satiety surely, I pray?
...there's a glistening bit of Keiviety!
This is just a bit of whimsy: Why not read Dee-it-ee, Dye-it-ee?
WW
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bill, remember this <ahem> discussion? here is a perfect use of the word upon which I stumbled whilst reading during my lunch today:
I deplore the current penchant for literary confession, spawned by our culture's conflation of two radically different concepts: celebrity and stature. - S. J. Gould, Rocks of Ages
(fused and confused :)
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Celebrity = fools faces are often seen in public places. Stature = spectacular priapism.
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2 : to combine (as two readings of a text) into a composite whole
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sorry, but isn't that gin and tonic??
Two elements (no, not in the chemical sense) combined into a perfect, composite whole!
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