"unsuck"

[Jonathan Lighter]

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
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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).
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