the.com/subcommittee
Where ideas go to get studied until everyone forgets they existed.
means A smaller group pulled from a larger committee to dig into one specific piece of business and report back.
from Straightforward Latin-via-English stacking: 'sub-' meaning 'under' or 'beneath,' attached to 'committee,' which itself traces to 'commit' (Latin 'committere,' to entrust or bring together) plus the agent-ish '-ee' suffix marking something delegated. So a committee is a body entrusted with a task, and a subcommittee is simply one rung further down that chain of delegation — a committee's committee, born whenever a group decides the real work should happen one step removed from itself.
- origin
- committee to avoid committee's actual decisions
- size
- smaller group, somehow slower progress
- function
- produces reports that spawn more subcommittees
- lifespan
- often outlives the problem it studies