EU English Misuses POLL

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Flicking through the full document linked in Tombot's initial post - this is pretty interesting. Was slightly surprised to see 'budget line' come up as one of the impugned usages. In my work (finance dept. for an agency of the Scottish Govt.) we use this all the time and it would never have occurred to me that it's a usage that has spread from EU documentation, or that it's seen as notably odd or confusing. *shrug*

off-site man days (Mr Andy M), Thursday, 27 April 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link

A 'control', in the sense of a procedural safeguard is another one that we use all the time & would never have struck me as out-of-the-ordinary (at least in the context of an office admin. type of environment).

I note in passing that the author of the document clearly had an absolute blast writing it.

off-site man days (Mr Andy M), Thursday, 27 April 2017 16:19 (seven years ago) link


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