"unsuck"

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:57 AM -0400 4/20/11, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>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):
>
>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3099
>
>Both the "un-" and "suck" components are of interest, but the commenters

--peasants that they are--

>mostly want to talk about the history of pejorative "suck" (which we've
>discussed many, many times).

Not that the latter formative isn't of *some* interest to be sure,
but short-skirting (as we can now say) the question of un-verb
formation is unthinkable, so I'll proceed to unthink it.

LH

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