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As of September 2017, a brand new {{tag|buzzword}} alert: "[[parable]]".  
As of September 2017, a brand new {{tag|buzzword}} alert: "[[parable]]".  


'''Context''': "are you framing this<ref>For example successfully executed pledge structure, for example,</ref> as a parable to draw from for this new transaction?"  
'''Context''': "are you framing this<ref>For example successfully executed pledge structure, for example,</ref> as a [[parable]] to draw from for this new transaction?"  


'''Meaning''': parallel, analogy, comparison.
'''Meaning''': parallel, analogy, comparison.


Bonus point for being [[:category:Religious buzzwords|biblical]]. But also for sheer degree of difficulty. This takes you right to the knife edge of mockery: You must to deliver with whole-hearted conviction, certitude and a self-confidence which is beyond most non-Americans, lest your conversational partner collapses in a paroxysm of laughter at you.
Bonus point for being [[:category:Religious buzzwords|biblical]]. But also for sheer degree of difficulty. This takes you right to the knife edge of mockery: You must to deliver with whole-hearted conviction, certitude and a self-confidence which is beyond most non-Americans, lest your conversational partner collapses in laughter.
 
:''“I’m reminded of the parable of the nine virgins. Eight of them were wise, and used their tin-openers diligently, but the ninth was a clumsy, loud-mouthed virgin who kept wittering on abou —”''
:::—The Very Reverend Andy Simpson, [[Not The Nine O’Clock News|NTNOCN]]


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Revision as of 15:18, 1 November 2018

As of September 2017, a brand new buzzword alert: "parable".

Context: "are you framing this[1] as a parable to draw from for this new transaction?"

Meaning: parallel, analogy, comparison.

Bonus point for being biblical. But also for sheer degree of difficulty. This takes you right to the knife edge of mockery: You must to deliver with whole-hearted conviction, certitude and a self-confidence which is beyond most non-Americans, lest your conversational partner collapses in laughter.

“I’m reminded of the parable of the nine virgins. Eight of them were wise, and used their tin-openers diligently, but the ninth was a clumsy, loud-mouthed virgin who kept wittering on abou —”
—The Very Reverend Andy Simpson, NTNOCN

See also

References

  1. For example successfully executed pledge structure, for example,