The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25338   Message #300749
Posted By: Scotsbard
19-Sep-00 - 12:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mangling the English Language, Vol. II
Subject: RE: BS: Mangling the English Language, Vol. II
The unnecessary misconcatenation of "ORIENTATE" and its bastard offspring "ORIENTATED" drive me bananas. The proper words are "ORIENT" and "ORIENTED" unless by some remote possibility the speaker is referring to alignment with the eastern direction or perhaps far-eastern regions.

Aargh! ~S~