Tuesday 1 October 2013

Communikate

Communikate: verb. The act of communicating with Kate. One might think that this can apply to any Kate, anywhere in the world, for example Kate, the duchess of Cambridge, but one would be wrong in thinking that. In fact one can only communikate with the Kate, from the brilliant play by Arthur Miller "All My Sons". Kate Keller plays a significant role in the plot of the play and whenever a different character has a dialogue with Kate, this can be referred to as communikating. Arthur Miller himself was quite fond of the word and used it regularly, while writing the play. However since the pronunciation of the word is indistinguishable from the pronunciation of communicate very few people were aware of Miller's usage of the word.

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