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>(Hey--could a deterrent to doing something be a decentive?)Wouldn't that have to be deincentive like reincentive or disincentive? Although I think recentive has a certain ring to it. So if you were really remotivated and had a lot of recentive would you then be recentful? Or if you couldn't get remotivated would you resent yourself for your lack of recentive? Or, if you were recently recentive but lost your motivation would you then harbor recent resentment for your lack of recentfulness? And now I think I need to call in milum to help sort this all out for me!  
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I think this is all getting a bit anally incentive, don't you? 
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fiery singing - would this make you in-cante-scent?
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I really am disincented to bring this back to the top, but I received this from a subscriber today and offer it as an example of corporate-speak.
ADCannounce wrote:
> This exciting new
> program is designed to motivate and incent employees for their continued
> commitment and determination to return ADC to growth and profitability.
(personally, I'm incensed when I receive crappola such as this.. -ron)
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(personally, I'm incensed when I receive crappola such as this..)...
Me, too.. Thanks for sharing, ron..
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Of the suggestions that have been made, "incent" seems to grate less on the ear. Of course, you could always use "motivate", though it doesn't seem to carry the same implication of a specific incentive being given for achieving whatever the goal is. For example, you can motivate someone with supportive words, but to really get a sales rep to do anything, you need to incent them with a nice, fat, monetary carrot.
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program is designed to motivate and incent employees for their continued
> commitment and determination to return ADC to growth and profitability.
At least it sounds preferable to a redundancy programme - the usual response to a drop in profitability.
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>preferable to a redundancy programme
oh, ADC did that first, reduntantly even!
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