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Triangulation

Glossary term

/tɹaɪˌæŋɡjʊˈleɪʃən/

Also appears as: Postmodernist triangulation, triangulation

Mark Wankstain’s preferred political geometry. Position oneself between incompatible things until the triangle collapses.

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Connections

Who uses the word

From the books (4 passages)

…like a like sufficiently like determined like postmodernist,” and “like it’s like all like about like the like triangulation, yeah?”

…announcement of the result with an equanimity born of long anticipation and bolstered by the standard platitudes about triangulation. The fact is, Dr Mark Wankstain was just now experiencing - whether or not for the first time who can say, but it seems likely - the awakening of that slumbering pygmy which we propose to call - laugh if you will - his conscience; and you may indeed chuckle, inasmuch…

The little people must have their say. Public consultation is one of the pillars of triangulation, that ju-che of postmodern twaddle. Like suffer like the like little like people like to like have like their like say, yeah? Like then like spunk like a like load like on like some like consultants, yeah? Like to like write like it like all like down, yeah? Like cross like the like i’s…

…Gone was the dapper little chimpanzee burbling his fashionable Likeney nonsense about triangulation, replaced by a surly, shambling, monosyllabic, altogether abject and charmless goblin who, on the rare occasions when their paths crossed, would not deign to look Ms. Dročerpyatova in the eye, but ever must scurry away mumbling some or other miserable inanity about the business which required his urgent attendance in person. And whenever she assayed to join…

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