BINGO
AND NOW ABOUT THAT TERM:
"The Pentagon and the military in general often use commonplace words in a slightly different way than what we are used to, and I hear that in 'degrade,'" he said. "We're used to hearing it as something being degrading or something degraded by that. We're not used to hearing it as an active, transitive verb."
Whoever came up with it is not using it in the sense that it's usually used in in the English language, Lakoff said.
DEGRADE AND DESTROY
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02/11/2015 4:37:57 PM PST by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)