new word?
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Aug 30 17:14:34 UTC 2013
On Aug 30, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock wrote:
> Bureaucrasona - presumably, the graphic persona of a bureaucracy?
I guess so, but what we're offering suffering from is bureaucrasoma. No known cure.
LH
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> From yesterday's Forbes:
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> "While the site looks very much like the NSA’s and much of the information — as gleaned from news articles — is accurate, it’s a parody site that takes on the bureaucrasona of the fictional “Domestic Surveillance Directorate.” "
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> http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/29/the-definitive-nsa-parody-site-is-actually-informative/
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