The GS Report
I'm in the process of reading the Goldman Sachs report about what India should do to become a superpower by 2050. Have read some 4 pages of it so far.
The guys who have written the report seem to be the type that aced all their social science exams. They were told they need to come up with 10 points and (as Aadisht mentions) decided to forget the ( Read more... )
The guys who have written the report seem to be the type that aced all their social science exams. They were told they need to come up with 10 points and (as Aadisht mentions) decided to forget the ( Read more... )
K is something that arose on the IIMB discussion boards. Initially it was just short for okay, but it later took on the connotation 'your position is so absurd and devoid of logic that arguing with you is a waste of time, so I'm not going to bother disagreeing.'
The adoption of this neologism was the highest in the class of 2007 - they extended the concept to things like K2U (generic insult), K2U2 (response to said insult), Kindeed (indicating assent) and Kinnovation (a bizarre innovation used for a very niche or dubious purpose - for example, spraying your fingers with petrol to hide the smell of a cigarette). By this standard, the Ignobel prize winning research can be said to be Kinnovative.
The sense in which Skimpy and me have used it in the GTalk discussion is removed from the original context a little, and just means lacking in all merit.
The usual IITM/ IIMB lingo rule of grammar applies for superlatives - it becomes Kmax, but somehow we've never decided on usage for comparatives - is something more K, or is it K-er? Similarly, is it more Kmax or Kmaxer? This is possibly a subject for a masters thesis for exchange students from Germany.
and credit for popularizing K should go to lastwordfreak
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