"unsuck"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Or "desuckify."

JL

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> That should be "unsuckify."
>
> Also, if "incentivize" sucks, how much more so does the evil "incent" that
> I constructively bitched about years ago?
>
> JL
>
>   On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Ben Zimmer <
> bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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>> On Language Log, I have a post about the word "unsuck," as used by the
>> website Unsuck It <http://unsuck-it.com/> (which translates corporate
>> jargon
>> into plain English):
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>> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3099
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>> Both the "un-" and "suck" components are of interest, but the commenters
>> mostly want to talk about the history of pejorative "suck" (which we've
>> discussed many, many times).
>>
>> --bgz
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