in case you were wondering if "McJob" really, really IS a word...

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:28:19PM -0500, Laurence Horn wrote:
> At 3:23 PM -0500 12/8/03, Robert Hartwell Fiske wrote:
> >It may be a word, but it's a miserable one.
> ><A HREF="http://www.vocabula.com/FreeArticles/VRAUGUST03Fiske.htm">
>
> In the eye of the beholder, I guess.  I find it a witty and useful
> coinage myself.  The nice thing about words is that in general nobody
> will force you to use one you don't like.  If you choose to avoid
> referring to dead-end jobs with low salaries, few intrinsic rewards,
> and no opportunity for advancement "McJobs" and prefer instead to
> refer to them more elegantly as "dead-end jobs with low salaries, few
> intrinsic rewards, and no opportunity for advancement", far be it
> from me to object.

America is a great country, innit?

JTS