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"Adultify"
Is it appropriate to use the word "adultify" in speech?
I found it in The Longman Register Of New Words (Special edition). However, it's difficult to find the word in use on the Internet. Even Google Translate doesn't know it. What do you think?
13. Aug. 2015 11:22
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It's possible and everyone will understand what you mean " to MAKE SOMETHING ADULT" but it is not commonly used at all.
+ify means "to make something...x".
13. August 2015
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Ugh. I don't like it. My reaction is "that's not a word, and if it is, it shouldn't be."
As Ruthi says "everyone will understand it." In English it's fairly common to coin words by combining prefixes or suffixes that may not have been used before.
Unfortunately, I can't think of any "real word" that means the same thing.
I think it's OK to use it in ordinary, everyday speech, even in a business meeting, but personally I wouldn't. But I can't imagine a situation where I would need to.
If you are making a formal speech to a group, or if you are writing, I would check a dictionary and I would not use it until it had been accepted in a standard dictionary.
Certainly in a half-joking context, I could say to friends any of a number of things, invented on the spot, like "let's add some hot sauce to tastify this food" or "I bought more RAM to speedify my computer,"
13. August 2015
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