The proposal also used lots of acronyms and management-speak, vocabulary designed to violate, on purpose, every one of Grice's Conversational Maxims. (The Angry Baker just tells me that I fail to appreciate things that are really important.)
Unless this company gives my lab research funds soon, within the next month, I predict that my tenure as one of their scientific advisers will last no longer than next month.
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A hierarchy of loopdeeloops.
It's loopdeloops all the way down...
Is this a joke?
You recommended that they fund the research, right?
Recursive nonsense?
If my guess is correct, then I really need to get a mental enema.
I'm surprised your brain hasn't melted.
Good luck.
@ GDad - it was a serious graphic illustrating "process." The little boxes represent nothing, as far as I can tell. The arrows must represent flow of some kind, but I don't know what. My best guess is inputs and outputs, units left to the reader's imagination.
Be honest with the company. Let them know that this is just Buzzword-O-Mania. Comment sharply on the content-free pictures.
I did this once for a funding organization, fully expecting to never get another one to look at. But they keep coming in, because they know that when I find one interesting, or just carp about the inability to use a spelling checker, that this is a likely one to throw money at.
Always be honest on stuff like that and call a spade a spade. And for crap we have lots of snarky little phrases we professor types can come up with :)
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