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To: RoosterRedux

Inflection? No one uses that word in speaking vocabulary. What is her question? Is she looking to throw him off balance?

I’m an English major. I teach high school English I had to look it up

I know it means a stressed sound on a syllable in a word

What does she want him to say I don’t know what that word is?


6 posted on 09/13/2015 9:09:44 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

It’s a graph term. You’re rate of increase may be steady for awhile — but at a certain point it may suddenly rise more steeply, or begin to suddenly drop. That’s an inflection point. Trump has been (at least a little) a glitz candidate. But as his ideas are put into detailed plans, people may change their view of him — they may like him more, they may like him less.

Marketers understand inflection points. Trump would have no confusion about that question.


12 posted on 09/13/2015 9:13:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
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To: stanne

Jeez, I messed up “your” and “you’re”. Mea culpa!


14 posted on 09/13/2015 9:14:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
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To: stanne

Inflection point is a mathematical term often used as a metaphor for a sudden change in direction.


21 posted on 09/13/2015 9:21:04 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: stanne

Excellent observation, because “words have meaning.”


46 posted on 09/13/2015 10:07:39 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: stanne

I am not an native English speaker and I knew the word. Damned American education system. Heck I knew the word inflection in 5th grade, but I was a voracious reader and my mother did me make me copy pages from the dictionary as punishment. I suggest Freepers copy my mothers punishment system. It really sucks for the kid but does them a world of good.

I swear I have in excess of 65000 words in my common vocabulary, and have a grasp of 2 to 3 times that. I was rather naughty ;-)


92 posted on 09/13/2015 9:46:01 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools)
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