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Although scorned by many, conversate has been in regular use for over 200 years

#Conversate #NotoriousBIG #BigPoppa #Conversating Conversate for a few, cause in a few, we gon' do. What we came to do, ain't that right boo —Notorious B.I.G. "Big Poppa" 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 from television, and donate was made from the 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). Conversate also upsets some people because it's most frequently used in song lyrics, particularly rap and hip-hop lyrics—as in the Case lyric "Tell me can we conversate/So we can ge