Excuse Me, But I Have a Touchy Subject to Bring Up

I suppose I should be writing this in the Journal of Linguistics or the International Journal of Lexicography, but I have a feeling those outlets are not as widely read as this one, so I’m making my case for reformed word usage here, and I trust your indulgence.

My concern is for the word “suck” and how it is being used, frequently in all forms of discourse, in a derogatory sense to means something bad, distasteful, or ugly—or something simply not to the user’s taste.  My concern, of course, is ...