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Feeling discouragified!
by loiswakeman @ 07 Dec. 2006 - 15:28:06

"This will help disincentivise polluting activities" - report on the Chancellor's PBR, BBC1 lunchtime news

Anyone who uses ugly neologisms like 'disincentivise' (a noun plus a suffix) when there is a perfectly good English verb already - 'discourage' for instance - should be taken out and strung up by the progenitive equipment (but I think that about lots of journos). I have no problem with creative innovations in English - but why torture it like this? Worthy of the impersonations of Dubya on 'Dead Ringers'

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Tags: americanism, english, neologism, noun, tv, verb,

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MrFlightyMrFlighty [Member]
07/12/06 @ 22:36

Gobbledegook seems to be proliferating more than ever!

govindangovindan [Member]
17/01/07 @ 07:28

I agree with you , "decostructing "the English language is unpardonable !

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