On Wed Dec 18, 2024 at 12:14 AM CET, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > With that said, not being a native speaker, if I had to turn "sequestration"
> > into a verb, I would say "sequestrate" too and it would sound right to me...
>
> There are a few other words that don't follow the pattern.
> "filtrate" is the fluid that has been filtered, but I don't
> think "to filtrate" is a valid word. And "orientation" is
> the act or result of orienting, not "orientating".
I didn't mean to imply that it's right this way (although according to
Oxford, it is[1]). I was just pointing out that it didn't sound wrong
to me (whereas your examples do; I don't know why).
Looking the word up again shows that sequester has another, related
meaning ("to keep a jury together [somewhere to prevent] them from
talking to other people [...]") which sequestrate does not have.
~ onf
[1] The dictionary labels gramatically incorrect words such as "gonna"
with "non-standard", but sequestrate is not labeled in ANY way,
indicating it's not incorrect in any way (according to them).
