Deplatforming

That's a new one on me! But perhaps we can coin some more: I think I'm ready to deforum and head for bed now.

It wasn't Dawkins who cancelled the speech. It was his speech that some other twits cancelled.

There's also "no-platforming" and I expect there'll be re-platforming before long.

Tell the silly students who are doing all this stuff to stick up for free speech instead of behaving like spoiled brats.

I'd be quite happy to destudent a large proportion of the university population anyway, many of whom shouldn't be there in the first place.

I have always hated 'deplane' what's wrong with disembark?

Too challenging to enunciate all those syllables?

I suppose "disembark" literally means get off a boat (disboating? deboating?) but at least there's some logic, as it is the opposite of "embark". The other examples don't correspond to a verb such as "to plane" or "to platform", which is why they sound wrong. We can't deplane if we never planed in the first place.

If you are doing woodwork, you can plane, but if you overdo it there is NO way to "deplane"!

One boards a plane so I suppose one should deboard or disboard it. Deplane is no worse than those, I think, and it is obvious what it means.

I thought deplatforming would be the opposite of detraining which I have heard in announcements on trains!

I once heard a sports journalist confidently predicting that an althete would be sure to 'podium'.

Or an Olympic athlete was ' medalled !

Was 'detraining' not used during the war as a military expression? Not that that excuses it!

The latest I've read today is detransition, for someone who has changed gender but now wishes to return to their original gender.

Where will it all end and can I de-age ?