Q Talk

[happygolfcartrider]

I have not read this entire thread but I do not understand the whole "story" thing. I think it sounds ignorant and stupid myself along with a lot of the other words used, butchering and making a mockery of the English language. These women are adults and they need to act as such and stop talking and acting like teeny boppers.  

QVC needs to put class back into their progamming and get away from the nonsense. 

[tends2dogs]

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@SunValley wrote:

Sometimes it's hard to tell if they say these non-words on purpose or out of ignorance. 

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Both.

[Q4u]

Word History Is 'Conversate' a Real Word? Although scorned by many, conversate has been in regular use for almost 200 years

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Conversate has the power to upset a great many people, if the hundreds of comments left by users of this dictionary under the word’s entry are any indication. One of the reasons it annoys people is because conversate is a back-formation, a type of word made by removing a portion of an existing word (such as the suffix). Thus, escalate was formed by shortening escalator; televise comes fromtelevision, and donate was made from donation. There are many hundreds of words in English made this way, but some people will forever look askance at words such as liaise (formed by back-formation from liaison).

http://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-conversate-a-real-word

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=conversate

[febe1]

"The verb loan is well established in American usage and cannot be considered incorrect. The frequent objections to the form by American grammarians may have originated from a provincial deference to British critics, who long ago labeled the usage a typical Americanism. Loan is, however, used to describe only physical transactions, as of money or goods; for figurative transactions, lend is correct: Distance lends enchantment. The allusions lend the work a classical tone."
(The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed., 2000)

[GG13]

How about 'fridge', 'cami', mani and pedi?

[suzyQ3]

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@febe1 wrote:

"The verb loan is well established in American usage and cannot be considered incorrect. The frequent objections to the form by American grammarians may have originated from a provincial deference to British critics, who long ago labeled the usage a typical Americanism. Loan is, however, used to describe only physical transactions, as of money or goods; for figurative transactions, lend is correct: Distance lends enchantment. The allusions lend the work a classical tone."
(The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed., 2000)

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Dictionaries offer options when they exist. And dictionaries also include words that are not considered proper usage (e.g., "ain't").

To say that something cannot be considered incorrect but then to cite objections by grammarians is a bit odd.