What is the verb that goes with Coopertition?

[JB987]

Coopertitioning?

[PhilBot]

Cool.

Originally Posted by JB987

Coopertitioning?

How would you say that?

co-op-er-tish-on-ing?

I think any suggested spellings should have a suggested pronunciation attached.

[Akash Rastogi]

One post before I head to the kitchen to make the stuffing...

It'd be based off of competing and cooperating

Co-opertating.

Happy thanksgiving all.

[JB987]

Originally Posted by PhilBot

Cool.



How would you say that?

co-op-er-tish-on-ing?

I think any suggested spellings should have a suggested pronunciation attached.

Co-rrrrrect!

[dlavery]

Shorter is better, so I vote for "cooperting" (co-op-er-ting).


-dave




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[JVN]

Cooperpeting

Co-op-er-pete-ing

[lbarger]

I agree with John.

[Chris is me]

I generally go with one or the other, as I'm usually either competing (on the field) or cooperating (off). If I'm doing both, I'm "being graciously professional" .

If I had to pick one I'd go with John's.

[Katie_UPS]

Coop-er-ting

[Rich Kressly]

hahahahahahahahahahaahhahaha....

You have no idea how long a colleague of mine and I discussed this VERY thing about six weeks ago preparing to deliver a conference presentation. He posed the question to me and after almost a full day of back and forth, like the veteran English teacher I am, I chickened out and suggested a workaround description.

However, out of what's here so far, I like JVN's choice.

[Andrew Schreiber]

<Not serious>
Coopertitioneering Pronounced as Co-op per tish in ear ring (See, I even managed to work engineering into there )
</Not Serious>
Akash's was funny too.

JVN's is probably the best but I think that if we tweaked the pronunciation of Dave's we might be onto something since it is much simpler to spell and isn't quite as visually intimidating.

[Molten]

I have to go with lilstogi. It just seems to follow most grammatical rules and sound right.

[DonRotolo]

Co-operteting ?
Participating?

[Cynette]

I need to get int CD more frequently! This thread just made my day!

So far my favorite, although totally impractical answer is:

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

<Not serious>
Coopertitioneering Pronounced as Co-op per tish in ear ring (See, I even managed to work engineering into there )
</Not Serious>

I'm leaning torward Co-opeting pronounced Co-op-eet'-ing.

I can see it now at a competition...
Adult to students- What are you doing?
Student 1 - We're co-operpeting!
Student 2 - No, we're co-opertating!
Student 3 - You're both wrong! We're co-operting!
Student 1 - No I'm right!
Student 2 - No way! We are definitely co-opertating!
and so on, until...
Adult - I don't think it matters whatever you are trying to say, shouldn't you all be driving the robot?

[Gary Dillard]

I'm going to go with Dave here.

You used different forms of the base words in your examples. The equivalents are (noun - adjective - verb):

Cooperation - Cooperative - Cooperating
Competition - Competitive - Competing

So by combining the common parts you get:
Coopertition - Coopertitive - Cooperting

Note that the adjective form is different than the verb form (as it is in competitive and competing)