Eloquate

Tried to look at the link but it covered in too many pop ups (do I want alerts, one I can't close about putting it on my home page, and a complaint about my ad blocker that won't seem to go away either.) to read. >.<

Well bother.

Paste starts:

Aled Blake: Why we all need to learn how to "eloquate"
There's a word missing from your vocabulary. You might not know it, but it’s the truth.

There's a word missing from your vocabulary. You might not know it, but it’s the truth.

It’s for that time when you want to succinctly express and convey your message with perfect clarity to your conversational partner or partners. There’s nothing quite for it in the English language at present.

I know, because I’ve scoured every page of the dictionary in a forlorn search. That much-lauded thinker of our time, the one-man cultural phenomenon who is Stephen Fry, is always going on about how great English is in some high-minded BBC documentary or other, but I know the truth is all too different.

Because there’s at least one gaping lexical hole to be filled; even Shakespeare didn’t create a word to fit the meaning. But I have – yes, you can rest easy, because I’ve come up with a unit of language to cover this lost definition.

It came to me when I was searching for one thing to easily encapsulate what I was trying to say instead of having to wordily witter on.

What is it? It’s: eloquate. E-L-O-Q-U-A-T-E. Eloquate. Read it; remember it; use it – it’s on me and it’s there to be enjoyed.

For the avoidance of confusion, if eloquate did have a dictionary entry, and I suspect it will not be long before it does, it would be thus:

Eloquate / *verb / to convey meaning powerfully with complete clarity and perfect grammar and punctuation. (He wanted to eloquate his thoughts on the subject of etymology.)

Today begins my official campaign for eloquate’s inclusion in the Oxford English Dictionary. Why? Because it belongs there; it belongs in our every day vocabulary.

It needs to be safely deposited into our conversational toolbox and the longer it is ignored by the language police, the longer we have to mangle our way through long, complicated sentences when we could be using one brilliantly simple word.

A quick Google search reveals that I am not the first to come up with eloquate.

At least, that’s if you’re to believe a deleted Wikipedia entry – lasting all of four days – which says two wizened old academics (I imagine them to be wizened and old, anyway) in the US thought the same as me and created the word eloquate, deriving, obviously from eloquent, with exactly the same meaning as my eloquate.

I’ve been subtly dropping eloquate into conversation for some time now, as if it’s something we’ve all been using from the day we learned to talk.

Others around me are already picking it up – and each time they use it I smile, heartened to think maybe English is the sponge for new material that Stephen Fry says it is in those BBC documentaries on language he does all the time.

Me get a new word in the dictionary? If I do, then I really will have eloquated my message very well.

[/Paste]

TY

I... have actually used and heard used that and presumed it actually was just another form of eloquent, lol

See, it's a word that was Needed.

I'm not sure it describes an act that is actually possible.