Monday, August 13, 2018

Washingtonian Language

Without further ado, I quote directly from The Hill:
Speaking to reporters on board a flight to Brasilia, Mattis insisted he initially opposed the creation of a separate military branch for space because the administration had not yet defined the challenges space posed for the Pentagon.
"I was not going against setting up a Space Force; what I was against was rushing to do that before we define those problems," Mattis said. "We've had a year, over a year in defining. And the orbitization of this solution in terms of institutionalizing forward momentum is very important."
W.T.F. is orbitization? Has administrative pidgin become the lingua franca in Washington?

3 comments:

  1. Administrative pidgin has been present in many fields, including university administration.

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  2. This was the best dictionary.com could come up with.
    - suffix forming nouns of action, process, or state; see -ize + -ation.

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  3. It sounds like a neologism to me.

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