The Language Gets Richer
A venerable local high-tech company, WRQ, Inc., was sold by its founders to a venture capital group. That in and of itself isn’t really bloggable news (we have our standards here), but a euphemistic term used by someone in the article to describe the deal hit my funny bone:
“I saw the whole thing as so positive,” she said. “It was a joyous moment for a long-term company in our community to have a liquidity event of this particular kind, where it didn’t mean redeployments and downsizing and having the headquarters move.”
“Liquidity event”? Hilarious. What would a birth be to this person - a “uterine anomaly”? It’s kinda “liquid”, too, actually. My hat’s off to her, this term will stick with me and go directly to work.
