Wordie: Paradigm: Comments

Comment by dgstone, 7 months ago

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:22:10 +0000

Official Definition #3: An example serving as a model; pattern.

Its meaning probably extends from its alternate definitions: "a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'" and "a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, esp. the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme."

Comment by SonofGroucho, 10 months ago

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:54:00 +0000

@skipvia: Love the term "bullshit bingo"!

Comment by chained_bear, 11 months ago

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:57:58 +0000

Uhh... wrong on both counts? Like I said... I must run in different circles!

Either that or--equally possible now that I think about it--I just tune out the bullshit.

Comment by skipvia, 11 months ago

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:10:49 +0000

I can surmise that you are in neither business or education, c_b. It's at the top of the "bullshit bingo" lists in both of those circles.

Comment by chained_bear, 11 months ago

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:25:10 +0000

I guess I run in different circles. Not only do I almost never hear this word, but even when I do, it doesn't have to do with shifting. Instead, it's usually used with "dominant," or else used as "paradigmatic."

Comment by seanahan, 11 months ago

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:19:53 +0000

You only ever hear about paradigms shifting. What do they think they are, better than us? Those shifty bastards, moving from place to place with no regard to those they leave behind.

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:45:25 +0000

The most annoying and misused word in the English language; used intentionally by stupid people to sound smart or by smart people to sound unintentionally stupid.