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[Benjamin Barrett]

I assume "assessment to determine order of urgency" is the key issue. OED definition 2a:

The assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses in order to decide the order or suitability of treatment. Freq. attrib.

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Jan 31, 2013, at 7:44 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>
> <<<Telephone triage of large volume of incoming calls. Intake for constituent
> concerns/complaints to Mayor>>>
> WB:  How to analyze this usage, as developed from the US military context?
> No hint of sympathy for Darwinian losers, since there don't seem to be any.
> With telephonic detachment, it has connotations of "clinical", clean,
> efficient, as the original dispassionate combat usage was supposed to have.
> And very importantly, it has a sexy Francophonic end-stressed [-AHzh]. (No
> association with "three" choices?)

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