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Originally posted by Fljotsdale:
Eventuations?????????????
I have an instinctive reaction against such recently coined portmanteau words in the English language!....
Having said that, if a language doesn't grow it dies.
But 'eventuations'?
Presumably a blend of 'event' and 'situation' .... the words have differing tenses, just for starters....
Guess I'm just getting old! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Yeah, I know its off-topic! Apologies to all!
Very off topic! It's called poetic license. If a word doesn't exist to accurately describe something, improvise. It's a logical extension of event, eventual, eventuate, eventuated, eventuating, eventuation.
Within the spirit of the language and understandable. Just a deviation on the tense of "eventuate" and "eventuating."
: even·tu·ate
Pronunciation: i-'ven-ch&-"wAt
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -at·ed; -at·ing
Date: 1789
: to come out finally : RESULT, COME ABOUT
Anyway, others have used this word.
Check out
these for a start.