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Doesn't this sound like a summer movie scenario? Unfortunately, the script would be replete with sentences such as this: Just as the skill and processes are not compartmentalized in the creation process, the evaluation of outcomes will occur against a background of understanding that separation of outcomes into discrete components is subordinate to the evaluation of the total process as a comprehensive outcome. Perhaps it could be subtitled? :snicker: Carolly

snicker Well, you're right, it could make a cheesy summer movie. Heh. Heh heh.

I need a translation!

I think it means "look at the whole picture when it is finished, and analyse that". ;^) The article is pretty good about raising awareness of the commercialization of our language. I'd never talk about a baby as an "OB product", but I guess some people do look at hospitals as baby-making factories with just-in-time delivery of the necessary parts. A little capitalism is a good thing, but when marketing totally runs amuck, then we are all in danger of being commodities to be bought and sold. If such marketing language becomes used as everyday speech, then our thinking will become innured to this blanket commercialization. Carolly

I was being a little facetious. I've noticed an unfortunate style of writing is to make something seem more authoritative by using as obtuse a language as possible. It's a style to avoid, unless the point is to conceal more than you reveal with words.

And I was using picture as a pun for a movie... throwing up the dust cloud of "don't analyse the screen-play, look at the entire opus in its triumphant whole". Please note that I didn't see the latest Star Wars movie, reading the screen-play was as much imbecility as I could stomach. If Lucas could bring that to the box office, surely a gifted writer could make something out of weasel words. Admittedly the migraine makes the brain short-circuit, but how about a plot about a corporate takeover of a nation, featuring malignant malls, disinformation, and the connivance of the media, but with the background figure of a shadowy spinster (a movie is nothing without a good villain) spinning words the way a black widow does her webs. If the corporation was a comestics company (packaging youth, beauty, sex), we could pun on the ultimate cover-up. With allusions to Dorian Gray, we might even get another classic. The heroine, of course, has a warped sense of humor... which is her preservation. Perhaps she is a poet, armed with the O.E.D.? Limerick writer? If she is chief copy writer for a major ad agency, she could stumble over threads of the plot and start to connect them into a pattern of her own. Carolly