Is 'conversate' a proper word?

[Bethere]

Sounds like Strunk was just ripping off George Orwell:

You have that backwards. Typical. Elements was published when Orwell was 15.

C'ya.

[Bethere]

Oh my gosh, bethere replied to me! My heart doth flutter much!

"Don't affect a breezy manner. "--Strunk.

[Common]

Get out.

Really?

Yup we hear it in the computer store all the time. Its slang everyone has theirs

[Common]

From Merriam Webster

Definition of conversate

conversated

; conversating

nonstandard

• intransitive verb
  
  
• : converse 2a … the young women who battle over a guy and recount their “conversating” with him. —
  

Now what do you all have to say, resister was right

[stjames1_53]

Oh my gosh, bethere replied to me! My heart doth flutter much!

So say we all...............

[stjames1_53]

"Don't affect a breezy manner. "--Strunk.

=your farts are the worst ever............they come from a loose ass............one end or the other

[Peter1469]

Psst: How about, "talk?"Attachment 18820

I have that in my office.

[midcan5]

Language is magical, readers of Beckett, Joyce, Faulkner, Woolf, McCarthy etc have encountered all the words. “There was a wisteria vine blooming for the second time that summer on a wooden trellis before one window, into which sparrows came now and then in random gusts, making a dry vivid dusty sound before going away: and opposite Quentin, Miss Coldfield in the eternal black which she had worn for forty-three years now, whether for sister, father, or nothusband none knew, sitting so bolt upright in the straight hard chair that was so tall for her that her legs hung straight and rigid as if she had iron shinbones and ankles, clear of the floor with that air of impotent and static rage like children’s feet, and talking in that grim haggard amazed voice until at last listening would renege and hearing-sense self-confound and the long-dead object of her impotent yet indomitable frustration would appear, as though by outraged recapitulation evoked, quiet inattentive and harmless, out of the biding and dreamy and victorious dust.” Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner“Also the sea tosses itself and breaks itself, and should any sleeper fancying that he might find on the beach an answer to his doubts, a sharer of his solitude, throw off his bedclothes and go down by himself to walk on the sand, no image with semblance of serving and divine promptitude comes readily to hand bringing the night to order and making the world reflect the compass of the soul.” To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolfhttp://www.openculture.com/2014/07/5-very-long-literary-sentences.html

[Chris]

educated people say converse

[DGUtley]

I'd never heard of the term until I read this thread.