What's in a word?

Well, bless your heart.

 

And how many times?!

 

…and where are the Polaroids?

 

An orientation results in your becoming oriented, not "orientated."

 

Bare bear, still better than Minion butt.

 

Then: denotes a period of time or a sequence of events. "This is now and that was then." "First you do step A, then step B."
Than: denotes a comparison. "He is taller than you are."

 

To that, may I throw in "explanate"? (explain, explanation..and for that matter, shouldn't the latter be "exPLAINation"?)

 

Back to the original post...a Texas flare-tip...

 

Along with my above criticism of "so", let me add "which". To me, it's very odd to hear, for instance"I went to the Red Sox home opener today, which I was glad to see the Red Sox won." Two solutions-1)-instead of "which", put a period, and make it two sentences, or 2)-"won" should be "win".

 

Don't even get me started on "conversate"

 

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

Just throwin' it out there.

 

I'm more of a quasi-pseudoantidisestablishmentarianist these days...

 

Gesundheit.

 

Danke schoën!

 

That's a usage I have not seen.

 

"Orientated" is proper in UK/India English. I, however, agree with you.

 

oh, I just meant that I wondered if someday we might see that as a "new wave" thing(explanate).

 

Let's hope not!