Unsuck It

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A couple of months ago, Jason Santa Maria called upon the Internet for assistance:

Can one of you wonderful content strategists start a Tumblr site, post awful business speak (“boil the ocean”), and provide alternatives?

Shortly thereafter, we set up a Tumblr account for translating douchey business jargon into understandable English. That started well, but we wanted to do more than Tumblr allows. We want Unsuck It to reflect our passion for clear, direct language, using words to communicate rather than obscure. We also wanted to add enough space to entries for sample sentences, and better pagination for the archives.

So we built it ourselves. Here it is, ready for you to play with: unsuck-it.com.

The new site lets you share a term on Twitter, e-mail a douchebag who used it, or suggest a new term we have yet to unsuck. Enjoy.

Written by Nicole Jones on August 12, 2010 |

3 comments so far. Add yours below.

jose says:

i humbly suggest that you add the "you define it" link to the nav somehow?

thanks!

August 13, 2010 9:04 AM

disco stu says:

i'm gonna touch base about this when i get back in the office, bet you guys had one massive brain shower to come up with this concept lol

jokes aside a definite success

August 13, 2010 1:22 PM

donovan says:

not too dissimilar
unsuck: similar

irregardless
unsuck: regardless

September 22, 2010 5:41 PM

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