I saw this last week on icontherecord (seriously, that is the name of the official intelligence community website--"Created at the direction of the President of the United States...").
Down the page is a report on James Clapper's April 15, 2014 keynote address to the GEOINT 2013 Symposium. The theme of the 2013 Symposium is "Operationalizing Intelligence for Global Missions."
So, I still can't shake this haunting question: Why would someone make a gerund out of a verb that was made from an adjective, which was derived from a verb modified into a noun, and then apply it to an abstraction?
A related question: what happens to an Anglo-Saxon conditioned brain when you seriously try to grapple with this? Can a coherent thought actually appear?
In researching this pressing issue, I came across references to the GEOINT 2013* Symposium, asterisk included. For example: https://www.govevents.com/blog/2014/02/28/geoint-2013-operationalizing-intelligence-for-global-missions/
In none of the stories about this Symposium was the asterisk explained. So, in addition to me trying to figure out the first question, I'm obsessed with what they are now doing to asterisks--which compounds the problem of haunting question number 2 above: My brain has become pointlessly tied up in meaningless knots trying to figure out what has happened to my native language.
I can only assume that Geoint 2013* is some clever way of describing a symposium that occurred in 2014.
Down the page is a report on James Clapper's April 15, 2014 keynote address to the GEOINT 2013 Symposium. The theme of the 2013 Symposium is "Operationalizing Intelligence for Global Missions."
So, I still can't shake this haunting question: Why would someone make a gerund out of a verb that was made from an adjective, which was derived from a verb modified into a noun, and then apply it to an abstraction?
A related question: what happens to an Anglo-Saxon conditioned brain when you seriously try to grapple with this? Can a coherent thought actually appear?
In researching this pressing issue, I came across references to the GEOINT 2013* Symposium, asterisk included. For example: https://www.govevents.com/blog/2014/02/28/geoint-2013-operationalizing-intelligence-for-global-missions/
In none of the stories about this Symposium was the asterisk explained. So, in addition to me trying to figure out the first question, I'm obsessed with what they are now doing to asterisks--which compounds the problem of haunting question number 2 above: My brain has become pointlessly tied up in meaningless knots trying to figure out what has happened to my native language.
I can only assume that Geoint 2013* is some clever way of describing a symposium that occurred in 2014.
