Yesterday's great Southampton moment

[green_amber]

In a meeting discussing student drop out rates, "attrition" in Soton-lingo, someone notices that in one column we actually added not lost students.

"Oh yes, that's positive attrition!" goes the stats woman.

AAAGGGG. So the word "accretion" or even "addition" departs the bureaucrat language..

Yesterday redeemed by lovely lovely dinner courtesy of nmg and ias. This featured (a) viewing the 5 week old Garklet and (b) trying geranium chocolate. I leave you to decide which was more surprising :-)

Comments

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Bugger, I thought I'd be the first to point out that it's negative attrition but some other pedants got there first.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

C'mon it's LJ :-(((

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Well yes and some of us have proper jobs and only look at it a couple of times a day!

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

And some of us just have lucky timing -- online in the morning, just as UK people are posting from work.

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought it instantly but can't (safely) read from work these days...