Robert Fulford's column about the word "paradigm"

I love words... I have for many years had the habit of looking them up when I’m writing. It’s not that I don’t necessarily know what they mean. I just don't ever want to use a word unless I've really lived with it. At times I choose a word when writing then wonder, “does this mean what I think it does?” 

Paradigm Shift

 I’ve been working on an article for the past couple of weeks. It’s not coming very easy at all. It has a lot to do with one of the favorite terms of our time…

"Paradigm Shift”…

So, as dictated by my habit, I check my usual resources and “Google it” to see if I’m using it properly and does it mean what I think it means?

I stumbled upon Robert Fulford’s column… a must read. I’ve been laughing for hours and I will never look at the word “paradigm” the same way again.

http://www.robertfulford.com/Paradigm.html

(Globe and Mail, June 5, 1999)

 

 (excerpt…)

Thomas Kuhn turned out to be the best friend a word ever had. He invented a phrase — “paradigm shift” — though he didn’t invent the main word. Derived from the Greek for pattern, “paradigm” had been living a respectable life in English dictionaries for centuries. It was honest but obscure, an extra in the mob scene of usage. Kuhn made it a star.

 

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7 Comments on The Paradigm Shift...

JUL
19
2009
126,786 Points 9 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp

Great article! I have you be honest here. My brokerage has used the word 'paradigm' for quite some time in relation to the shift of the real estate standard when the foreclosure wave hit the market. So I'm guilty...

Thanks for the share!
10:37pm • #1

Rene' .... I love this word too.  The first time I heard it I laughed as we were in a meeting when managers wanted to present us with a new philisophical strategy and paradigm was utilized.  I  don't recall what the point was but I fell in love with the word as my mind read it 'pair a dig em'.   I found the intellectual approach to sell the idea to staff hilarious.  Hence, I never look at the word seriously.
11:12pm • #2
JUL
20
2009
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Hi! I appreciated your blog this day.  The active rain community allows me to learn and think outside my little part of the world.  Haven't used the word myself -- NOW I am glad!
12:32am • #3
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Ashley: We're all guilty... part of being in our time. I too thought Fulford's article was a great little history... thanks.

Linda: Me too... I love mystery in a word. Until I read this I held it so differently. I'm laughing with the world and at myself...

Debra: Thanks... we're all in our 'little part' of the world, no matter where that is... I'm still going to finish my article, and I will probably use the word... yet, I have a new awareness, and I am glad we got to share it... thanks...

 
1:59am • #4
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Love the article.    I wasn't familiar with Robert Fulford.  Now I must read more of his stuff.

Brother, can you PARA DIGM?  :-)
8:06am • #5
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Ah, but it sounds so ... snooty.  Thanks for the fun read.
8:07am • #6
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Cheryl: Finding Robert Fulford again was really fun. 

Jim: thanks... I'd say more sarcastic?
10:43am • #7


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