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Dear Mel I love it, the greatest gift a teacher can give, is that they teach their students how to learn. The best example of this I have seen is ' multi-segmental vertebral dysfunction', ie they have a problem somewhere in the spine. Warm Regards Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 26 June 1999 06:39 Subject: GURU THESAURUS >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 >[log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%