Let's Conversate....
Well, I would but I don't know what "conversate" is.
Conversate is NOT a word. Stop saying it. It sounds stupid when you say it. It makes you sound like you are completely ignorant of the simple workings of the English language.
It is CONVERSE or CONVERSATION.
Let's have a conversation.
OR
Let's converse.
NOT
Let's conversate.
Morons and the ill informed who listen to morons use this word. Back formation is a way to jusitfy and make it "okay" to be lazy and make up words that do not need to be made up when there are proper ways of saying what you need to say, without sounding like an ignoramous. It is not a "back formation" of a noun, it is lazy ghettoese. Back formation, as an explanation, is an after thought of one of the most insipid and inane words ever to pop up in modern english.
If you say this word, stop making yourself look stupid right away. People are laughing at you when you say it... and they have every right to do so.
Be smart.
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Guy goes on Elimidate. He gets 4 girls at the start of the date and each round he has to eliminate one of them until he ends up with one. They clip to one on ones with all the people on the "date" and nearly every show someone somewhere will say something like this:
"Yeah, I was all just trying to conversate with him and then that bitch had to all get up in my face."
or
"Me and the girls were sitting there just conversating and having a good time, I wish I didn't have to choose."
Only on one occassion did I see one smart girl call another girl on the word "conversate" When she said it the smart girl goes "I'm sorry what did you say? Did you just say.... conversate? *insert laughter"
Conversate.... wtf!
Sorry, couldn't resist! Here, something you hear all the time is yous....... 'yous fellas wanna go into town?' Drives me nutz!!
Those that conversate need to ejumacate themselves so they can embetter themselves. We gotta make sure kids are getting ejumacated, especially children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate. And you know, when you can conversate with people it is easier when interfacing with them.
You know, I think George Bush was the first to coin the word "conversate".
;)