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Kapa Posted 12 years ago
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hi dear friends,
i need some help to understand the bold words in the following text:
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“Stan wants to ask about the profit margin, and about whether this thing is a private venture: someone’s got the lucrative contracts, walls don’t build themselves, and the security systems are top grade, from what he’s been able to guess. But he stops himself: this doesn’t feel like the right moment to ask, because now a great big consilience has come up on the screen.
He has to admit that the PR team and the branders have done well. consilience = cons + resilience. do time now, buy time for our future. They also changed the name of the actual prison, because “The Upstate Correctional Institute” was dingy and boring. They came up with “Positron,” which technically means the antimatter counterpart of the electron, but few would know that. As a word it just sounded very, well, positive. And positivity was what was needed in the country as a whole: positivity. Even the most cynical—said Ed—even the most jaundiced would have to admit that.”
i need some help to understand the bold words in the following text:
thank you
“Stan wants to ask about the profit margin, and about whether this thing is a private venture: someone’s got the lucrative contracts, walls don’t build themselves, and the security systems are top grade, from what he’s been able to guess. But he stops himself: this doesn’t feel like the right moment to ask, because now a great big consilience has come up on the screen.
He has to admit that the PR team and the branders have done well. consilience = cons + resilience. do time now, buy time for our future. They also changed the name of the actual prison, because “The Upstate Correctional Institute” was dingy and boring. They came up with “Positron,” which technically means the antimatter counterpart of the electron, but few would know that. As a word it just sounded very, well, positive. And positivity was what was needed in the country as a whole: positivity. Even the most cynical—said Ed—even the most jaundiced would have to admit that.”
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g. perhaps a company name). "cons + resilience" is an explanation of why the word was chosen, or what it is supposed to suggest.
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- perhaps a company name).
- "cons + resilience" is an explanation of why the word was chosen, or what it is supposed to suggest.
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- prisoners), and resilience means "ability to remain strong in the face of difficulties or setbacks".
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As I read it, the word "consilience" has been chosen by the PR people as a slogan or brand name for something related to prisons (e.g. perhaps a company name). "cons + resilience" is an explanation of why the word was chosen, or what it is supposed to suggest. "cons" is an informal abbreviation of "convicts" (i.e. prisoners), and resilience means "ability to remain strong in the face of difficulti
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Thanks for your answer. would you tell me the meaning of "do time now" ?
“Stan wants to ask about the profit margin, and about whether this thing is a private venture: someone’s got the lucrative contracts, walls don’t build themselves, and the security systems are top grade, from what he’s been able to guess. But he stops himself: this doesn’t feel like the right moment to ask, because n
“Stan wants to ask about the profit margin, and about whether this thing is a private venture: someone’s got the lucrative contracts, walls don’t build themselves, and the security systems are top grade, from what he’s been able to guess. But he stops himself: this doesn’t feel like the right moment to ask, because n
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"do time" means serve time in prison.
Are you sure you typed everything exactly correctly around that point? Does a new sentence begin at "do"? Does it have a capital letter in the original?
Are you sure you typed everything exactly correctly around that point? Does a new sentence begin at "do"? Does it have a capital letter in the original?
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“He has to admit that the PR team and the branders have done well. CONSILIENCE = CONS + RESILIENCE. DO TIME NOW, BUY TIME FOR OUR FUTURE.”
The whole sentence is capital
The whole sentence is capital
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The Public Relations team is inventing new catchy jargon, and they came up with "consilience" from the words "cons" (convicts, inmates) and "resilience" (the ability to recover from adverse situations.)
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You would get a better answer if you posted a link or reference for your source.
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The novel is probably based on the situation in the US where prisons are being "outsourced," that is, not being run by the government, but by private, for-profit corporations. These companies get paid by the government for housing and feeding each inmate. The optimization of the corporation's profit margin could lead to rather sordid and depressing tales of man's inhumanity to their fellow men.
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