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Subject:"technical" as synonym for beyond understanding From:"Gutierrez, Diane" <Diane -dot- Gutierrez -at- WESTGROUP -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:41:49 -0600
While reading a newspost, this tidbit came up: 6,000 welfare families were
wrongly cut off benefits because they did not respond to a routine mailing.
The spokesperson:
>>called the letter ``confusing; difficult to understand, complete and
return; and technical in nature.''<<
Hm, interesting. What does this imply about the vernacular meaning of
"technical"?
