[Ads-l] New to me: "astroturfing"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Yup, pretty clever.  It was one of our word of the year candidates a few =
> years back; I forget which category and whether it won.
>

Dammit! My memory kicks in, a day late and a dollar short! :-( I recall
that, now.

Well, it was still the first time that I've seen it in the wild. ;-)


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-Wilson
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