How's that again?

[Doug Harris]

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From: "Dave Hause" <dwhause at JOBE.NET>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Received: 9/28/2009 11:48:19 PM
Subject: Re: How's that again?


>I hear it, gratingly, with some frequency in the hospital.  Part of the
>jargon I would call "nurse-ese" with another unfavorite of "ambulate"
>instead of the simple "walk."
>Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
>Waynesville, MO



I heard a guy say the other day, "You need to conversate with those people." He said it twice in a few minutes, so that must be what he meant to say.
dh

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