PPP "retrofit"

[Neal Whitman]

See my post
http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/retrofit-and-reverse-engineer-shameful-synonymy/
for another example:

"The tactics developed by the SERE programs were part of the protocol for
defensive training of military personnel in case of enemy capture; however,
after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, they were _retrofit_ to
be part of the arsenal of offensive tactics to elicit information from
military personnel or civilians considered as enemies." (Philip Zimbardo,
_The Lucifer Effect_, 2007, p. 253)

Neal Whitman
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From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:03 PM
Subject: PPP "retrofit"


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> Heard on  the Weather Channel:
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> "Between now and the time that these [approaches to the Golden Gate
> Bridge] get _retrofit_ is about ten years."
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> I'd say "get _retrofitted_." But then, I also say "shitted, fitted,
> pitted," etc.
>
> -Wilson
>
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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