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Language Log 2013-03-15

Summary:

Annie Lowrey, "As Automatic Budget Cuts Go Into Effect, Poor May Be Hit Particularly Hard", NYT 3/3/2013: “President Obama proclaimed that the sequester’s ‘brutal’ and ‘severe’ cuts will ‘eviscerate’ America’s domestic spending,” Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, wrote in a recent article published by Investors.com. “But ‘eviscerate’ is not the adjective I would use; in [...]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4504

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Tags:

humor

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

03/15/2013, 12:21

Date published:

03/04/2013, 14:54