[Ads-l] "Alternative facts" for EOTY
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jan 23 02:50:10 UTC 2017
An alt-term for "lies," I take it.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:
> That’s our refashioned Euphemism of the Year category. See, inter many
> alia, http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/politics/kellyanne-conway-
> alternative-facts/
>
> I’m afraid we’ll get a whole bunch of strong candidates for this category
> over the next 11+ months...
>
> LH
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