NATO business as usual is normal
this headline screengrab taken this afternoon from the BBC website caught my attention for its use of the word normal to describe the should-be diplomatic status quo between Russia and Georgia which has more or less been put on hold ever since Russia’s incursion into Georgian sovereign territory.
the BBC’s headline refers to a quote by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, and what he actually said was,
We have determined that we cannot continue with business as usual.
the BBC merely recoded his wording from usual to normal. And subsequently a new expression – business as normal – was borne!