What is a Paradigm?
Paradigm (noun)
-a set of all forms all of which contain a particular element
-an example serving as a model
The word is made up of two words: para and digm (to show).
In layman's terms, a paradigm is another word for idea, style, pattern, example or approach. Any of those words can be easily interchanged with the word paradigm but such a fancy word makes for great rhetoric.
Examples of the word paradigm in a sentence:
- With their incredibly high payroll, the New York Yankees are a paradigm of modern day baseball teams.
- With so much money having been spent, the Presidential race between Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama is a paradigm of present day campaigning.
- Having been around for decades, Katie's Deli is a paradigm of a well run business.
- With its hard to make sense of story line, the new Indiana Jones movie is a paradigm of big studio films.
- With new innovations to create a better user experience all of the time, Google is a paradigm of a well run corporation.
- Due to her drinking and drug problems, Lindsay Lohan is a paradigm of child movie stars when they grow up.
- Equipped with a touch screen and full Qwerty keyboard, the new Apple iPhone is a paradigm of the modern cell phone that the original iPhone itself created.
- The Chinese powdered milk scandal is a paradigm of the lack of simple regulation that the Chinese government refuses to enforce.
- With nothing but unconfirmed rumors on their cover, the National Enquirer is a paradigm of a tabloid.
- Offering no substantive analysis, CNN is a paradigm of a major media outlet.
As you can see, the usage of the word paradigm is simply a paradigm of fancy, unnecesarry rhetoric. And the sarcasm of the author of this piece makes him a paradigm of modern day writers.