Friday, 8 August 2008

Bullshit Bingo #4 - Incentivize


Incentive is such a nice word, not only does it sound quite nice, it has a nice meaning.

Mmmmm, an incentive.

I love a good incentive me.

I’d do practically anything for a nice juicy incentive.

Which makes its recent bastardization all the worse. You’d be hard pressed to find a nastier example of Americanized business speak verbificationalization.

A perfectly acceptable alternative to incentivize, and far nicer, would be motivate.

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