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.
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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