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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

547.0. "Phrase Generators" by VANISH::PRIESTLEY (Pigs Really Do Fly!!) Fri Aug 05 1988 19:30

    Kick this around for a while...
    
    			The Phrase Projector
    
    	An indispensible aid to ineffective communication. Simply select
    one word from each column to produce a high sounding phrase guaranteed
    to cause mental indigestion and confuscate all but the most scholarly.
    
    
    	Total			Performance		Capability
    	Simulated		Policy			Strategy
    	Organisational		Diagnostic		Alternative
    	Transient		Contingency		Interaction
    	Peripheral		Stability		Function
    	Motivational		Concept			Characteristic
    	Optimum			Parallel		Programme
    	Diversified		Reciprocal		Model

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
547.1	a quickie ?	GAOV11::MAXPROG6	By popular demand , today is off	`Fri Aug 05 1988 19:48`	4
	Transient Reciprocal Interaction John J
547.2	PDS	DOODAH::RANDALL	Bonnie Randall Schutzman	`Fri Aug 05 1988 21:41`	4
	Peripheral diagnostic strategy -- turning your head to find out what you saw out of the corner of your eye. --bonnie
547.3	By the numbers	RICKS::SATOW		`Fri Aug 05 1988 22:15`	20
	A more effective way of using a list like this is to assign a number to each word. Then, instead of a phrase use a three digit number. 1 Total 1 Performance 1 Capability 2 Simulated 2 Policy 2 Strategy 3 Organisational 3 Diagnostic 3 Alternative 4 Transient 4 Contingency 4 Interaction 5 Peripheral 5 Stability 5 Function 6 Motivational 6 Concept 6 Characteristic 7 Optimum 7 Parallel 7 Programme 8 Diversified 8 Reciprocal 8 Model For example, John's "Transient Reciprocal Interaction" becomes 484, and Bonnie's "Peripheral Diagnostic Strategy" becomes 532. It also works well when you are writing a pompous technocratic memo, but get stuck for a phrase. Simply generate a random number, and use whatever phrase results. The 111 of this 247 is the 763. Clay
547.4	At some point the list = the lottery numbers..	CURIUS::CIUFFINI	If my Personal Name were a song, it	`Fri Aug 05 1988 23:33`	6
	Oh. I see. So, looks like I'm the result of 324. ( always wanted a number for that. :-)) Thanks! jc
547.5	I don't understand????	IJSAPL::ELSENAAR	Home, on a global trip	`Sun Aug 07 1988 17:39`	8
	So, a 247 actually is a set of related projects, meant to be started when a risk actually occurs, tried out in a safe environment? Sorry guys, I thought the numbers would be very meaningless, but this one is coming very close to something that is covered by a project methodology... ^v) Arie
547.6	Extend it to 5 columns and we're all in trouble	GAOV11::MAXPROG6	By popular demand , today is off	`Mon Aug 08 1988 12:55`	7
	It's my last week (again) so I'm having trouble with my 651 . That topic . You know , the one about word-ass-foo . I propose note 547.3 will be the most referenced . John J
547.7	just a hint...	IJSAPL::ELSENAAR	Home, on a global trip	`Mon Aug 08 1988 13:03`	3
	Use 547.3 as your private 547.