Words I swear people make up because they think jargon is a lost art their language skills are poor: "electronify".

Words I swear people make up because they think jargon is a lost art their language skills are poor: "electronify". Used in a sentence: "Electronify your referrals and save time." They could protonify or neutronify them, but I don't think that would really help, either. Then again, leptonify would be more inclusive and encompass the electron approach.
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  1. Zeynep DilliApril 12, 2014 at 3:38 PM

    OK, that one actually hurts.

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  2. John NovakApril 12, 2014 at 7:53 PM

    Better than electronificate, though.

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  3. F-L SilverApril 12, 2014 at 8:03 PM

    Well, I could at least conflate that they might have been pontificating about electronic communications. Then again, electronification sounds like the forced imposition of charge on neutral particles.

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  4. Amy YoungApril 13, 2014 at 5:59 AM

    If I had to guess what a person meant by "electronification", I think I would conclude they were talking about the Transistor Transition and the scope creep of electronics away from niche uses and into ubiquity.

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