antibiotic = 'effective medicine' (UNCLASSIFIED)

Fri Dec 14 16:59:43 UTC 2012

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Does this fall into the category of

1. "Language evolution" or

2.  "Ashleigh Banfield is ignorant of the English language, an odd thing
for one whose job should require fluency thereof"

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> A "diagnostic" example.
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> Ashleigh Banfield of CNN, interviewing a woman who was cured of a
> horrible brain illness, repeatedly describes the treatments as
> "antibiotics." More specifically, they were "Prednazone and immune
> therapies."
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> JL
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