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I have never heard anyone pronounce "oriented" by saying "orientated". Maybe if they were 12?

• spxdcz 17y ago
  We interview quite a few developers, and I'd say about 25% of them pronounce it 'orientated'. Maybe it's a British thing? Most are graduates too, fresh out of college.
  • bmelton 17y ago
    I've heard plenty of US-born / US-raised developers use the term as well. Moreso when I lived in the South than when I moved to the DC metro area. Another pet peeve of mine are people who "Administrate" computers. I don't know of a polite way to correct them short of correctly using "Administer" in sentences that follow, but I usually come away from that feeling as if they think I'm the one using it incorrectly.
    • mahmud 17y ago
      If someone said they "administer" computers, I would think they're MCSEs. Real BOFHs sys admin (could have been just "admin", but the sys prefix is there to importantate.)
      • bmelton 17y ago
        Interesting. I ADMINISTER computers, but I used to BE a SYS ADMIN. Administer is a verb to me, and admin a noun. Either way, your suggestion doesn't offend me 1 millionth as much as administrate does, in either usage.
      • randallsquared 17y ago
        there to importantate Clearly you meant "importantize". Sheesh.
        • silentbicycle 17y ago
          iMuy importante! :)
• pistoriusp 17y ago
  Personally I've never heard anyone saying "oriented," or even picked up that it was different from "orientated" until today. The dictionary on OS X says: orientate |ˈôrēənˌtāt| verb another term for orient. I suppose that this is just the way that people speak in South Africa? And maybe Britain?