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#143969 06/16/05 04:40 AM
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Dear Max ~

I am not taking the lovely and charming and fluent AnnaStrophic on, with my suggestion. She said that incentivar is a perfectly legitimate Portuguese verb and I agree with her. I was just suggesting that the form with which I am more familiar is the one I offered. You think I'm gonna get killed for this? Not me. She is too fine and refined a lady.

With warmest regards,

O Boyo



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You think I'm gonna get killed for this? Not me. She is too fine and refined a lady.


No argument there. My comment was out of envious admiration. Your post filled my head with images of parents' mothers, eggs, and the oral extraction of material therefrom, and left me in awe of your courage.


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I must admit I had to take a deep breath before using operationalisation in a translation the other day. Not only does this monstrosity exist in English, but it has been adapted into Indonesian as operasionalisasi. I cannot for the life of me see that it fills a long-felt need in either language.

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Today's Dilbert comic strip has Dogbert the consultant saying:

Incentivize the resources to grow their bandwidth to your end-state vision. Don't open the kimono until you ping the change agent for a brain dump and drill down to your core competencies.


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And if you have a penny in your pocket are you incent? Or maybe that's your incent? Because if you didn't have that penny you'd be outcent. And if you were outcent you'd be sent out because you had no money See?



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>no money See?

Wow! I had heard that the Vatican was a bit strapped for cash, but I didn't know it was actually bankrupt.


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