Take one verb - let's say to oblige
remove the last letter and add -ate
- and you have to obligate.
Now take to remedy
and apply the same method
- and you get to remediate.
And so on. You can also do
something similar by simply adding -ize.
To fragment will thus become to fragmentize.
This is not wayward, but a typical
example of one accumulative way
that languages develop.
(Another way is by word-truncation.*)
Maybe to envelopate will developize
from to envelop.
At any rate, it's futile to resist
developmentalization.
* e.g. by reducing alternative to alternate.
even though alternate already exists
with a quite different meaning.
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