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Topic: What is pionate??


Wow...five pages of responses, and this is not settled well.
Google isn't much help either. Reports in this topic cast
aspersions on various dictionaries, people who can't spell,
dating scammers, and abbreviations.

OK...my turn.

I've hit this word about six times before here. One was a single-word
posting (not too revealing). Two I didn't figure out. The other three?
They all fit well to one thing.

So what's happening? People misspelling English is possible, even with
the use of computer scripting (application macros, or 'command-line'
Batch programming). Unless lots of scammers out there are following
one old(er) DIY manual one error from such might well vanish in a few
months. Abbreviations are clocked and reported here-and-there. Hard to
imagine one not being noticed and written of. There are lots of other
ways this might have been brought to sight. Perhaps it's a case of more
than one simple track of etymology.

Easy to imagine some other dating site (or 'Catholic' school) which does
ban the use of '***'. So there's a few writers loose who might think they
had to exclude the combo of three letters from words that use them.
I've seen similar on Plenty-Of-Fish. Most of the writers find work-abouts
(sometimes cute), and some simply replace the 'bad word' with punctuation
(the editing computer might even do this for them). Anyway...could be put
on our screens meaning 'passionate'.

Could be some simple keyboarding mistake. Anyone want to fuss over accidents?

How about anagrams? Someone catch five examples from five sources.
Could discover some interesting twist!


OK, OK. Doesn't anyone else have in their history crosswords or Scramble?
I know...it's not in a dictionary. But likely it's source is. I still do
not text with cell phones. Some of the word abuse chops understanding
right out of my sight. Still...there's PLENTY of people who do their
typing with a cell phone text bias. Make it short and quick.

So what is bigger than 'pionate'? Maybe several things. The word I thought
of would have pionate as a contraction (or a bastard contraction?)
of "opinionated". Fits well in three uses of 'pionate' I've seen.
It's actually a word used in conversation now and then. In lots of subjects
and places.

So sometimes "pionate" is a bastard contraction of "opinionated".

There are various other causes too, but in any case it doesn't seem
to be catching on very well.