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Igel

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7. And yet they had no trouble understanding each other.

Reply to grantcart (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 08:42 PM

Oct 2013

That's the term that the Obama admin rep used. "Enrolled." If they don't have a clue what they're saying because they don't use the right terms, well, that's just not a very flattering inference.

However, to show how shifting and imprecise the language was, later the same statement characterized the number of applications "filed" as the number of applications "begun."

So perhaps the inference drawn was a mite too flattering.

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