In their defense I would like to note the following:
Personally I'm caucasian and not from the inner city. I went to Princeton. Many of my colleagues, ( also not from the inner city) used the word conversate. However converse is the proper phrase which actually reminds me of the sneakers converse.
Conversate should be added to regular to end all bias. It's easy to determinewhere the word is derived from and what is mean when a person uses the term. At the end of the day a word is just a word because someone made it to mean one thing based on interpretation. New words are formed everyday which should have no reference to slang unless they have no real structure of evident meaning. Spread peace. :-)
To pass time between lectures my friends and I would conversate about politics.
But to appease the minds of sensitive scholars....
To pass time between lectures my friends and I would converse about politics.
While conversate is technically an accepted synonym for converse, the verb tends to be favored by members of the population with IQ's that are generally well below average. This typically includes gangsta rappers, graffiti artists, and short, bald-headed asian men who work in the finance field, but believe themselves to be "thuggish".
The word Conversate is formed through a process in etymology known as back-formation. Many literary geniuses of their time used back- formation such as but not limited to Shakespeare.
Also many common and accepted words in both English and other languages all over the world contain common words that are formed through back formation.
Many ignorant individuals could learn a thing or two by studying up on both the word conversate, and other back-formations before criticizing and making a generalization about a word and the people who choose to use it.
i forgot to further my career, and do anything positive with my life. but i did conversate with my parole officer about me not paying my child support with my drug earnings. now im back in jail where i belong.
- to talk, discuss or converse
- Ebonics version of the intransitive verb βconverseβ; urban hybrid of the two words βconverseβ and βconversationβ
Conversate for a few, cause in a few, we gon' do
What we came to do, ain't that right boo (truuuueee) Notorious B.I.G. - Big Poppa β 1994
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It could be in my place (On my place)
Or your place (Or your place)
And we could let our body conversate
Black Eyed Peas β The Way U Make Me Feel - 1998
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Tell me can we conversate
So we can get to learn each other
I don't think that we should wait
If this is a forever thing
Case β Conversate - 2001