NewsSpeak: ‘Sucky’ Supplants Normal Terms
Waiting at home for an electrician, I turned on [tag]Fox News[/tag] because Food Channel was featuring [tag]Paula Deen[/tag] (not one of my favorites). The news was good: Dow Jones Average up 283 points, but the accompanying commentary wasn’t nearly so good. The anchorman said, in effect, "So the economy isn’t so sucky after all."
I don’t know if this represents a new low in televised news or whether I just haven’t been paying enough attention. I suppose we all have a definition of sucky that makes his commentary understandable, but whatever happened to the words bad and lousy? Has sucky supplanted them?
Enquiring minds don’t really want to know.
Posted by Gary McCarty
