Here is a system which will enable anyone to sound like a real authority in
the world of therapy, training and teaching. It is based on a little
exercise which I periodically used with my medical, physio, physical
education and engineering students to teach them the importance of clarity of
expression and audience awareness (Siff M C 'Technical Communication
Assignments' 1980).
On a less serious note, I encouraged them to use this list (or others based
on their own choice of words) to make them sound rather erudite if anyone
ever used that old trick of throwing in complex-sounding terminology to
appear more educated than they really are.
The secret matrix which is issued from above to all aspiring gurus appears
below. You can use to sound like a real 'guru' in your profession. To use
it is simple. Just throw together a cell from each column at random, such as
A2/B5/C7. Read off what this represents, namely:
"acyclical lumbomechanical trajectory"
What about "imbalanced lumbomechanical synergism"?
Or "ipsilateralised biosequential tonus" ?
Or "aberrant force-coupled pattern" ?
Then drop into into any email or discussion and you will immediately be
recognised as the definitive guru of training and therapy, especially if your
audience happens to be the general public.
Doesn't this sound like some folk whom you have met who like to think that
they are real authorities, especially when they invariably fail to explain
the jargon which they frequently use?
THE GURU TERMINOLOGY KIT
A B C
1 inverse neuromotoric pattern
2 acyclical force-coupled sequence
3 sympathetic articularised rhythm
4 retrograde endokinetic tempo
5 imbalanced lumbomechanical process
6 interdigitated biosequential protocol
7 anterosuperior thoracotendinous trajectory
8 ipsilateralised aponeurotic synergism
9 aberrant adductocentric posture
10 biofactorial symptomatised manipulation
Have some fun with it - refuse to be intimidated by those who try to befuddle
you with terminology and immediately respond in like fashion with this your
own "private terminological generator" (how's that for a 'guru' word?).
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
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