Most objectionable neologism ending in "-ize"

i think "monetize" is my favorite word of all time

it would be hard to come up with a word that better represents all that the 21st century has to offer us

the greeks launched western civilization, and here we are, thousands of years later, having completed it with the word "monetize"

this is easily problematize for me but only because a good friend went to grad school and when he came back he was saying it every two minutes.

max OTM

utilize is a regular-ass word, i don't know why it's even here

encentivize and monetize and itemize are all even at their worst useful, phonetically appealing words

problematize is easily the ugliest out of this lot

ha i managed to misspell one

cant say ive ever heard problematize before but i like it, the rest are so solvey

"use" is a regular-ass word

"utilize" is for power-users of english

cant say ive ever heard problematize before but i like it, the rest are so solvey

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:57 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i forget that u didnt go to college sometimes, i bet you wouldve liked it, this is the #1 word of college besides "discourse"

incentivize is probably the most heinous on a purely aesthetic level

though problematize is a photo-finish runner-up

damn max you are like the most cheerful cynic I ever knew

haha i forget that u didnt go to college sometimes, i bet you wouldve liked it, this is the #1 word of college besides "discourse"

paradigm ftw btw fyi

cynicized

problematize, in a strictly poetic sense, is easily the least harmonious of these imo

itemize sounds silly but there's no other word for the thing you do with tax deductions

cant say ive ever heard problematize before but i like it, the rest are so solvey

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:57 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i forget that u didnt go to college sometimes, i bet you wouldve liked it, this is the #1 word of college besides "discourse"

― ☂ (max), Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that does sound kinda grand

itemize sounds silly but there's no other word for the thing you do with tax deductions

how is it diff. from "list"?

maximize

enumerate

strongoize

Given that I've gotten unreasonably attached to "incentivize" due to my fervent defense in the other thread, it now occurs to me that there are probably a lot of people who both use "problematize" in a meaningless way AND mock the use of "incentivize"

not the regular-ass word, i mean to make something more like maxim gorky

it was a bittersweet day when the city of nizhnii novgorod was demaximized

laxativize is a regular-ass word

this "we can't have TWO words with the same meanings!" shit is a real zero sum game, let's not get stupid about this

voted "utilize," it's a load of boxwank almost everywhere but a scrabble board

btw i've been to college and i've never heard the word problematize in my life. what does it mean? create problems or solve them or what?

itemize sounds silly but there's no other word for the thing you do with tax deductions

how is it diff. from "list"?

― love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:01 AM Bookmark

It refers to taking a bunch of individual deductions for different things ("itemizing your deductions") as opposed to taking the standard deductions. When you say "I itemize your deductions" you don't just mean "I list my deductions," you mean "my individual potential tax deductions add up to enough money that it's worth it for me to claim all of them instead of taking the standard amount"

all ize on me

When you say "I itemize MY deductions" rather

lampize

if you got a problem with utilize you might as well be dissing utility in which case what the fuck

this "we can't have TWO words with the same meanings!" shit is a real zero sum game, let's not get stupid about this

― let a :) be your ☂ (some dude), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 14:04 (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's stupid when there's a perfectly good word that does a perfectly good job in a perfectly good context and then some spanner in a pinstriped suit and madonna-face-mic invents a new word with a Z near the end and trademarks it

It refers to taking a bunch of individual deductions for different things ("itemizing your deductions") as opposed to taking the standard deductions. When you say "I itemize your deductions" you don't just mean "I list my deductions," you mean "my individual potential tax deductions add up to enough money that it's worth it for me to claim all of them instead of taking the standard amount"

right I mean I do itemized deductions every year - I list them, instead of taking standard deductions - I'm unclear as to how "list" isn't sufficient to the task here

pedantize

btw i've been to college and i've never heard the word problematize in my life. what does it mean? create problems or solve them or what?

― let a :) be your ☂ (some dude), Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:05 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you have "problematized" my statement that problematize is the favorite word in college

more so when aforementioned pinstriped toolbox takes a noun and turns it into a verb for no apparent reason xxp

Also I think in general "itemize" carries a connotation of breaking down into a list something that might not otherwise be broken down. E.g. you can "itemize" your expenses from a work trip as opposed to just seeking reimbursement for the whole amount you spent. Whereas you wouldn't "itemize" your shopping list.

"atomize" is a pretty good word for blowing shit up

yeah itemise/itemize/whatever indicates the activity that results in a list rather than the list itself xp

Even though I don't like incentivize, I think there's a little bit of unique nuance in its meaning and use -- sorry, aero. But "utilize" just doesn't bring anything to a sentence that "use" doesn't, except wasted syllables.

should we quote the simpsons itt y/n?

i think you've problematized the definition of atomized there, max

it's stupid when there's a perfectly good word that does a perfectly good job in a perfectly good context and then some spanner in a pinstriped suit and madonna-face-mic invents a new word with a Z near the end and trademarks it

I was gonna try to cast Hurting's complaint that people who dislike "incentivize" actually dislike it because they're liberal artsy business-hating types but this post is kind of exhibit A in defense of that accusation

which I reject btw as I said in a long post on the other thread, specialized vocabulary is not in itself bad and only sounds ridiculously til you speak the language. "incentivize" is still crap imo tho

people are intimated by power-utilizers of the english language, its understandable

*intimidated

*intimidized

i think you "monetize" a music video by getting licensing fees for airplay or ad revenue based on pageviews

yeah, or you don't worry about it because it's meant to be a free promotional tool for something else. But yes, a music video is an imperfect example since the songwriter would in fact get publishing royalties, etc.

I mean, my point is that the concept of monetization is a real issue for certain types of content online. But in my experience the buzzword has seeped into other areas and resulted in some people thinking that every little individual activity that you may do for personal career development or self enrichment must somehow be monetized.

you know who was good at monetizing

king midas

lol

haha. how to monetize daughter

wk OTM. "to monetize" generally means to turn an action (on your part) and/or an interest (on a potential consumer's) into new revenue. e.g., charging money for access to or getting advertisers to sponsor something that's currently free or unsponsored. there are lots of legitimate, sensible business actions that do not directly "monetize" anything in this sense.

ok, I misunderstandized the specificness of the term

OAD fwiw:

convert into or express in the form of currency.

(goes back to at least 1867)

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you know what this poll was missing was "hebraize" and "hellenize"

i think i voted for "monetize" by mistake, i thought we were voting for our favorite

polkadotize

Bette Davisize

cat size

http://www.theknowe.net/dfwfiles/pdfs/word_notes.pdf

this is how vodka and i have spent some recent nights

Happy deanglicizing day everyone!

I wonder what word the person who voted for prioritize would use in its place.

you entitled motherfuckers - there doesn't have to be a verb for everything!! my life would be easier if there were a verb for "to eat a sandwich" but there isn't! that doesn't mean i get to invent one!

"prefer" works sometimes, other times "to set priorities" works just fine

"provide incentives for" oh the horror! three words!

weird, I'm kind of tired, but I'm struggling to see how prioritize could ever be replaced with prefer or provide incentives for in a sentence. to set priorities doesn't quite work either.

also, I think you're perfectly entitled to invent a new verb for sandwich consumption. why not try it? maybe it will catch on.

"make this a priority"

what a bunch of sniffy snoots

maybe this belongs more on 'too much time on ilx' but i have genuinely used (one-time ilx coinage) 'whinetize' in non-ilx irl conversation and then got very very tangled up trying to explain what it means*.

* (turning some lulz into a book and, hopefully, coin)

whinetizing is the new literature

Will start banitizing people soon.

sammichize, kev?

^1p3 take note

you entitled motherfuckers - there doesn't have to be a verb for everything!! my life would be easier if there were a verb for "to eat a sandwich" but there isn't! that doesn't mean i get to invent one!

― bros -izing bros (k3vin k.), Tuesday, July 5, 2011 6:27 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

I have said this several times in the past but this time I mean it for sure, this is the greatest post in the history of ilx

"sandwich me"

that means wildly different things depending on context

http://i40.tinypic.com/11jpvg7.png

really

^still shake my head every day when i walk by this sign

Using caution would be too callous.

"problematize" cf. "saxamaphone"

If "incentivize" drives you up the wall, say hello to "complexify" (Paul Krugman on This Week).

immanentize

"operationize" = do

smize.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/golf/www/release/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_med_image/article_images/masters_87_mize_299x453_0.jpg

No lie, the first time I encountered the word "monetize" was when Stormy Davis began using the moniker "Monetizing Eyeballs". I figured it was some kinda clever portmanteau of "Monet" and "vandalizing".

Monetize definitely seems the most practical and legit of the bunch here.

I erased problematize from my vocabulary before I stayed grad school.out of self consciousness.

Started, that is.

"we need to prioritize our work"
"we need to establish priority for each of our tasks"

"i will prioritize this task"
"i will do this task first"

I like the word "prioritize", it's one of those corporate bureaucratic terms that lets you file away projects so you can work on what's actually important. "I'd love to work on this for you, but I've prioritized X and Y, so I'll add it to my list."

and by "what's important" I mean posting on ILX and reading blogs.

heard someone use "skeletonize" to describe a building at the texas explosion.