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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 11/2/2006 12:36:56 PM
Title: "Stinks" beats out "sucks"
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From DENNIS McCAFFERTY, senior writer, USA Weekend: Regarding Brett Anderson’s critique of the GQ New Orleans critique, in which he writes: "The November issue of GQ magazine contains a lengthy story wrapped around this scoop: Not only have New Orleans restaurants sucked for decades, but a full year after Hurricane Katrina, the problem has yet to be remedied..."

Maybe I've been asleep for five years, but since when did it become perfectly acceptable in MSM to casually toss out the 's' word? Did a focus group of 20-something, non-readers indicate they'd buy a newspaper every year or so if we snuck it in there more often? Beyond the fact that it's a pretty crude term, it sounds downright sophomoric. Personally, I always preferred the 'stink' word. It's more conversational and funny. And it has that hard 'T' consonant there, which always makes for more zing in the copy. [Permalink]

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