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Edwina's Secretary
Lets see...
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Paradigm-
1. Grammar .
a. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme.
b. a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
2. an example serving as a model; pattern.
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Origin:
1475–85; < Late Latin paradīgma < Greek parádeigma pattern (verbid of paradeiknınai to show side by side), equivalent to para- para-1 + deik-, base of deiknınai to show ( see deictic) + -ma noun suffix
—Synonyms
2. mold, standard; ideal, paragon, touchstone."
I can accept a misuse of a word. I certainly was not an English major. My admittedly poor use of written communication is probably why I was just a "B-" student. I've just always been a better public speaker as opposed to being a writer.
Perhaps you (or any of the other English majors out there?) can explain to me how I used the word incorrectly? I ask because I was trying to convey that you needed the "standard, current thought, commonly understood standard, etc..." to be what I described.
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