Excuse Me, But I Have a Touchy Subject to Bring Up
I suppose I should be writing this in the Journal of Linguistics or the International Journal of Lexicography, but I have a feeling those outlets are not as widely read as this one, so I’m making my case for reformed word usage here, and I trust your indulgence.
My concern is for the word “suck” and how it is being used, frequently in all forms of discourse, in a derogatory sense to means something bad, distasteful, or ugly—or something simply not to the user’s taste. My concern, of course, is that the use of the word this way should be considered vulgar, pejorative, and offensive, since it derives in fairly recent history from the phrase “cocksucker” and its pejorative use as in “he sucks.” It was an insult to homosexuals from the beginning, and I know nothing about it except its contemporary overuse that diminishes
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