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Thursday, December 27, 2007

South to south

A recent interesting catchword from the Double-Tongued Dictionary is:

south to south adj. arbitrary jargon used at the World Bank to indicate migration from one poor country to another. “South to north” indicates migration from a poor country to a rich one.

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