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Excuse my ignorance/innocence but wouldnt 'Terminal verbosity' indicate 'computerese'? Hilary Camilla Flintermann wrote: > > The article quoted by janet p. on "Patient Perspective & Self Help" begins > thus: > > "Effective adaptation to PD demands that patients and their caregivers > elaborate coping strategies that empower them and promote a more salutary > orientation to formidable psychosocial difficulties and thus, perhaps, > blunt or prevent depressive responses." > > Just for fun, I decided to translate the psychobabble / jargon into more or > less plain English, as below: > > Learning to live with PD means that PWPs and CGs must find ways to take > charge of their lives and learn better ways of dealing with serious > emotional and social problems. This may help them to avoid serious > depression. > ***** > As a professional counselor, this skill of translation was an essential one > to survival in my chosen field---or as someone once wrote here, "Why can't > doctors speak plain English?" (---or French, German, Spanish, Chinese, > whatever?) Would a petition help?-----Naw, I think it's a case of > "terminal verbosity" ! > > ---just for fun!........ Camilla <[log in to unmask]> > > http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/camilla/one.htm > > Laughter-- :-) :-) > the best medecine !