Sub-what-timal?

OK, I may not be the world's best writer and Lord knows I could use a little help in the punctuation department. I do, after all, count Austen's novels amongst some of my all-time favourite reads and that whole era had an addiction to the comma that I find myself dipping into occasionally and very randomly.

But still, I've always thought I had an admirable vocabulary. Passable at least! ;-) But a favourite word of Jamie's really tricked me recently.

SUBOPTIMAL!

Is it a word? Seriously? The good people of every major dictionary seem to think so. Many learned folks agree. The dude who wrote the probably brilliant yet seriously thick-reading Theory of Suboptimal Decisions needs it. There's even a band using the name in Germany... But I think that it's a crappy word.

Conceptually, yes. Good word. Less than optimal. Not perfect. A word that is definitely going to get a lot of use, for sure. But it's just so... SUBOPTIMAL! It the opposite of graceful. It's clunky and awkward to say and I personally think it should cease to be a legitimate word. I'm not alone. Several smarty pants people that Jamie works with agree. I have yet to poll anyone that I know to gauge their opinion. Any votes with me?