Sam Smith - One of the things I like about Joe Biden is that, as my high school math teacher would put it, he speaka United States. So I was surprised to hear him three times use the terms "inflection" or "inflection point" in his speech to Congress. Though I recognized it as the latest Washington aren't-I-bright phrase, I hadn't got around to even checking its definition, which turns out to be:
A point of a curve at which a change in the direction of curvature occurs
In business, a time of significant change in a situation, a turning point
Hopefully, this won't be an inflection point in the way Biden talks. Don't change our curve, man.
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Could this so called inflection point inflect more upward rather than downward. When a ship changes it's course is that an inflection point. Tain't all bad!
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