pumpkinification epitome of incomprehensibility One of my students quoted Seneca in her reading response. Curious, I looked up his name, wanting more context than just "ancient Roman person sometime somewhere," and I discovered from Britannica that he had written a work called the "Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius" (Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii, a pun on "apotheosis," meaning becoming a god). I think pumpkin-derived words should be more widely applied. "How do you feel about the pumpkinification of fall-themed foods and drinks? Do you feel that they have in fact been underpumpkinified, since, for instance, pumpkin spice lattes typically contain no pumpkin? Please pumpkinify your responses below." 231208 ... ego hum pumpkinification is not a process it is being pumpkin pumpkinishfis is truth 231208 ... raze i beg to differ. the law of lentils clearly states that pumpkinhood is the proper terminology when one achieves winter squash status. without pumpkinification, which is very much a process of becoming, we'd all just be rutabagas and bell peppers. 231208 what's it to you? who go blather from