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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 a paroxysm of laughter at you. | ||
{{seealso}} | {{seealso}} | ||
[[category:Religious buzzwords|Religious buzzwords]] | *[[:category:Religious buzzwords|Religious buzzwords]] | ||
*[[Sing from the same hymn sheet]] | |||
{{ref}} | {{ref}} | ||
Revision as of 17:09, 13 September 2017
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 a paroxysm of laughter at you.
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- ↑ For example successfully executed pledge structure, for example,