[Ads-l] "Fluid adjustment"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jun 20, 2015, at 11:44 AM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> A back-of-the-book-indexer was describing how she uses a timer to alternate between work (indexing) and breaks (of various kinds).  She wrote "today I’m trying 10-min. breaks. For other breaks, such as fluid adjustment, I’m simply pausing the timer."
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> Encompassing either/both depletion and repletion, I believe she meant.
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So it works half-time as a euphemism and half-time not.  Halfemism?  Huphemism?

> About 1,540 hits on Google Web.  However, the early ones are about adjusting fluid intake, for medical reasons.  I didn't search for an association with urination.
> 
> Joel
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