atw: Re: SEC: UNCLASS Frameworks

Howard Silcock:

> For me, one word that provokes this reaction is 'framework'.

I don't necessarily have a problem with the word; indeed, I use it in my 
teaching 
of academic writing, when I tell students that they need to identify 
the "conceptual framework" for the problem they are working on. A conceptual 
framework includes underlying theories, related studies, and the implications 
of 
their own and others' ideas. Foundations, walls, and roof, as it were. But I 
confess that I do have to explain the term when I introduce it. Trouble is, I 
haven't been able to come up with an equally concise alternative. (It's only 
concise when I use it the next time, of course!)

> Is there a word for words like this, that suggest action and achievement
> but actually promise almost nothing?

Verbosity? Empty rhetoric? Wind? Pollie-speak? A tale told by an idiot (as in 
Macbeth: "All sound and fury, signifying nothing")?


- Michael Lewis

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