Political dysphemisms

Mon Aug 17 05:14:13 UTC 2009

And for those of us on other sides of the political 'spectrum', there's also 'Astroturf' and 'Public Option' for government-owned health insurance company.  One dys and one eu.

Geoffrey S. Nathan
Faculty Liaison, C&IT
and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
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