It was stolen honestly from the French a few centuries ago (from 'envisager'), and it's just fine. Whine about something else.

P.S. Blog is a word now. Get used to it. 

That was the greatest post ever written. 

"smeg"

as in the oven brand... 

Those are misuses of words and phrases as opposed to raging against a perfectly valid word. But funny nonetheless. 

http://www.smwa.net/downloads/funny/rake_bush4.swf 

OMG, it is so funny :P 

Hang on a sec...

WTF is wrong with orientate?

And yeh, That was the greatest post ever written. 

It would have been better if he had swapped all of his you're/your usage and threw in a 'teh' here and there. Just a tip for next time, loosers! 

Or somesuch shit. Teh. You're welcome. 

In a nondescript Bay Area office park, a converted hard-drive factory with a shiny new fa �ade began churning out unconventional solar tubes that big investors are betting will soon blanket commercial buildings across the world.

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2FecETkyw

Try to imagine the voice of the narrative in the movie reading the paragraph above. 

It's 'orient'. 

http://www.answers.com/orientate

Verifying what is and isn't a word is pretty easy. 

The whole shit about what is and isn't a valid word is garbage. If someone makes up a word, it's a valid word. Period. That's all there is to it. It doesn't need to be in the dictionary to be valid. The spoken language is pretty fluid like that.

Fo' shizzle. 

http://www.fileplanet.com/192598/190000/fileinfo/Portal---Portal:-Prelude-Modification

A pretty professionally made Portal mod taking place some time before the original game. You have to play through 19 test chambers and eventually get to witness the activision of GLaDOS. It even has bonus maps and a developer commentary (in French).

Unfortunately, I found most of the puzzles to be incredibly hard and annoying (some seemed to border on pixelhunting) and eventually ended up noclipping through most of the maps. This is clearly something aimed at the hardcore Portal players. 

If enough people use the wrong word, it's no longer the wrong word. Perhaps that has happened to 'orientate', but I don't think a link to answers.com establishes that.

I wouldn't use it on my resume.

Zwiffle: spoken language is fluid, but people are going to think you are a complete moron if you use poor English in formal writing. 

People will think you're a genius of satire if done correctly. -.- 

Which version of the English language you're speaking. 

dis miens det wen ai dont rite goet amerikeniesj
ai mait bie a djienius ov satier? 

except madfox 

 

iirc 

 

I can even fuck over another language - su / tu. 

or guest
orgue est
orchest ra! 

Is resonating throughout you're blogospheres