"lender/borrower" goes the way of "ancestor/descendant"?

Herb Stahlke hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
Sat Feb 5 02:43:40 UTC 2011


A talking head on MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan show this afternoon was
talking about the failure of foreclosure help and used "borrower"
three times in the sense of "mortgage banker" or "lender."  Once would
have been a slip, but three times makes me wonder.

Herb

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