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Since it is the old carrot on a stick why not use some form of sticarrot or leave off the obvious t. Sticarro sounds kindly enough not to bruise ether end of the stick.
Don't understand what is wanted here.
Don't understand what is wanted here.
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Is "help" too simple a word to use here?
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I'm sorry, I keep hearing Jimi Hendrix.
I think that if you want to express this concept with but one word you will probably have to resort to the dreaded act of verbificatatenization. If two words will suffice then I would offer "offer incentives"
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Welcome, luana, and (I'm sorry, I have to do this--slapping my own hands away from the keyboard was totally ineffective) Rouse Peter. Faldage--are you going to kiss this guy?  And, verbificatatenization--wha-at, she asked hazily? Lastly, Faldage, shouldn't you have proffered"other incentives"?  Good heavens, I nearly forgot to address the opening question. I'd go with motivate, if you're sticking with just one word.
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Faldage--are you going to kiss this guy? [doing cartwheels] that was *my* mondegreen post!! someone remembered something i wrote!! this feels almost like a rite of initiation jackie, you're the bestest =)
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Jackie would go with motivate
The problem [ignoring all the clever references to numerous other threads emoticon], as is often the case with these irritating neologisms, is that the suggested non-irritating alternative doesn't quite have all the connotations required. Motivate doesn't necessarily suggest that there will be some reward for doing the desired thing. My two word suggestion would, I think, require another word such as (pr)offered incentives to.
Sorry, Jackie, if I misspelled verbificatatenization. I'm never quite sure what the right spelling is and it doesn't seem to be in Ænigma's lexicon.
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How about verbicacophonization?
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Muy gut, moya bonne friend.
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<<carrot and stick>>
I'm with you, luana. WELCOME! How about "doitandyougetthetoasterdon'tandI'llkickyourass"
And, as long as we're at it, what's with executive compensation?
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