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Re: Incentivize (was RE: Weird words)

Subject: Re: Incentivize (was RE: Weird words)
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: Sarah Bouchier <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:34:17 -0400

Sarah Bouchier wrote:

<twitch> <twitch>

I best remember 'incentivize*' from a company meeting a couple of gigs
back, where they were talking about how to 'incentivize' their
employees.



Incentivize is ugly, to be sure. I prefer the version I've heard for the last few years, _incent_, as in "We need to incent the {user | customer | employee} to ....

Works for me.

And Keri Morgret wrote:
> I haven't run across this in print, but in ham radio I've often heard
> "destinated". As in "I'm signing off now, I'm destinated here..." just
> meaning I've reached my destination.

One word instead of three. I like it.

English grows in mysterious ways ;-)

Dick

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