Most Euphemistic

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Apr 2 13:10:54 UTC 2014


At Yale in the early 90s it was called "the restructuring committee".  Linguistics almost got restructured out of existence.

LH

On Apr 2, 2014, at 12:58 AM, Benjamin Torbert wrote:

> My University now has a "budget realignment task force."
>
> I think this = "people who decide who and what is cut."
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> BT
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> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

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The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org



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