theExact
Word Experience
You may
need help communicating.
Or your workplace
might. Or your
school. Whether personally
or professionally,
theExact Word Experience
tailors well. Because a
fundamental
misunderstanding 1500
years ago or so has
inadvertently veiled how
English really works,
English speakers have
performed near miracles in
sometimes successfully
communicating
nonetheless. English
simply does not operate as
Latin languages do.
Our Latin grammar has a
valuable place, for
words. Yet, to
disentangle thinking from
words, we have to look
between the lines for
meaning we've
unconsciously
expressed. theExact
Word Experience
affects other experience
in collaboration, respect,
education, and more
considered selves.
Yet, shifting into how
English really works is
astoundingly easy.
If
you can count to
two, you
can master English.
English has two sets of
thought patterns each
used
in
one of two ways, no
exceptions:
Image
- Two
types of Images, for
big-picture thoughts:
Blue,
Primary Images, and
Pink,
Conditional Images
Detail
- Two
types of Detail for
fleshing-out or
deepening the
broader picture: Green,
Process Details,
and Orange,
Background Details.
Used carefully, both
types of Details can
also compress Images
to condense writing.
Note:
theExact Word’s
workshops additionally
parallel these
patterns and colors to
the Latinate grammar.
Combining
these
patterns
creates
all
English sentencing,
spoken, read, heard,
or written. Period.
No choice. And
have since
Chaucer,
around 1300, and in
fact before that. As
you speak and write, you
use all four
of
these patterns.
They
have no exceptions. We
cannot not
use them.
But our
“Latin” grammar, a grammar
based on single-word use,
inadvertently hid English
meaning behind a veil of
terms - you know them, not
only "noun" and "verb" but
also "participle," "modal
auxiliaries," and quite a
few more. But now, think
of the
eight-parts-of-speech as a
“Latin Operating System,”
(LOS), for 1500 years the
only explanation we had
for meaning in English.
With theExact Word,
you use the BOS (Brain
Operating System) to
“read” between the lines,
to capture meaning beyond
words, and beyond grammar.
Nothing whatsoever wrong
with either; but that
third, hidden, meaning
frames all your sentences
either by default or by
design. No choice.
The BOS Method for K-12 or
ThoughtPrint Gateway to
Mastery methods for adults
gives you tools to see
objectivity what added
meaning all your writing -
and speaking too - has.
You become consciously
articulate, objective
about your own meaning.
You shift your paradigm
about language. You shift
your vision. You think in
ways you don’t think. You
end strife. You gain
strategies and use
strengths better. You gain
design options for better
communications. You see in
more than one way. For the
fuller history of how
theExact Word came
to be, please see The
Martian Moment
Seeing
With New Eyes – New
Knowledge
You could
not speak English, or move
past definitions of single
words, without already,
unconsciously, using
“word-ordering.” Read this
sentence. In a
“nano-second” you will
most likely see that you
“add” the “real” meanings
to each “still:”
My uncle
owns a still in West
Virginia. When the tax
people
come after him, he hides
under the still, lying
very still; still,
he runs his still next to
the still-life store.
So what?
Your recognizing how the
meanings of “still” change
opens the door to shifting
your paradigm to how
English really works.
Second-language speakers
shift from word-focus to
patterned thinking along
with learning vocab.
First-language speakers
gain by consciously using
dimensions of meaning
unique to English and
"Flipping" meaning to
more-considered order.
Fundamental
elements of English emerge
into logical either/or
choices. And that
either/or nature of
English includes grammar
as a binary system
too! Masterful and
articulate communication
evolves. If you've
ever struggled with
English, with writing,
with communicating, new
options await.
theExact Word
Experience shifts your
vision to a new paradigm.
Seeing our language
differently, and our
communications choices
differently, creates new
confidence, new
possibility – every day.
We even see our own
“realities” differently by
having new choices, new
perspectives, and new
knowledge.
Language
creates meaning beyond
vocab and grammar.
Language pattern connects
to intuitive
thought. Everything
begins with thought.
Thoughtfully communicated
meaning needs design.
New
Knowledge
In English,
we do not add “endings” to
our words to relate them
to each other. The “still”
sentence illustrates this
"Fixed-Word Order" trait
of English. Instead, we
tie word groups together.
We connect them or we
“stack” them on top of
each other, sometimes
three at a time.
We know this, but we don’t
know we do. Becoming
conscious of how English
really works creates new
knowledge. We have new
knowledge about our
choices of what to say. We
see ourselves and each
other differently. We
shift options with
multiple perspectives
simply by “Flipping”
thoughts from one pattern
to another.
Change the pattern, change
the meaning. Change the
meaning, change realities.
You will
gain new knowledge.
Guaranteed. New knowledge
about language, about
English, your writing,
your thinking, about
others. You will
understand why everybody
else seems to think so
differently. You will
change what you know about
how English works. The
colors below mean
something: each
color represents a pattern
of thought. Learning
them activates more than
one area of your brain.
ThoughtPrint
What if you knew why
you think the way you
do? And why others
think so differently?
What if you changed
how you think just
long enough
to
really communicate
with someone else?
You
would have
a new experience.
Every
English speaker has a
language habit, often
quite different
from
our own.
Thus,
“thinking
out of
the box”
really
means empowering
ourselves
with
fresh views from other
contexts
-- how
the other three
patterns and their
combinations differ from
the default we
each have as
our individual
language habit.
No matter your
particular goals,
theExact Word’s
ThoughtPrint Inventory
will direct you
to a self-assessment
of how
you think and
your
patterned communications
habits.
Every
English speaker will
usually have a first and
second choice for a
thinking style – how s/he
best likes to learn or
convey information. Those
are strengths. His or her
third and fourth choices
may be styles less
attractive to him or her,
but they form wonderful
strategies to augment
personal strengths. After
all, we must use all four
patterns to speak and
write English at all.
Furthermore, all four
patterns create different
context meanings. As we
think with each pattern,
we invoke each type of
meaning, despite our
defaults.
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- Orange,
Background Detail:
time, place, or
grouping, the
specifics about events
and processes or other
words.
- Pink,
Conditional Image:
circumstance or
impinging conditions.
- Blue,
Primary Image: mission
or “bottom-line”
purpose supporting all
the other contexts.
- Green,
Process Detail:
guidelines,
principles, or
“always true”
processes that have
happened, are
happening, or could
happen.
“You
already know everything
you need to know about
English because you speak
it. “ (Dr. Robert Fox at
American University)
Making conscious what you
unconsciously know will
change your life.

“Do”
Your ThoughtPrint. Learn
Why You Think the Way
You Do
Currently
an activity during
workshops, training, or
coaching, theExact Word‘s
ThoughtPrint inventory
will be offered as an app
or downloadable during
2013.
ThoughtMap
Every
group, work team,
organizational staff,
faculty, classroom, or
family has a collection of
ThoughtPrints which
theExact Word displays
in a “ThoughtMap” which
explains why people don’t
see eye-to-eye or share
standards for “doing
things the right way.”
Understanding
communication “across the
map” lowers barriers
quickly, replacing them
with bridges and
interpersonal harmony.
The ThoughtMapping
Inventory will accompany
the app or downloadable of
the ThoughtPrint Inventory
during 2013.
“Perceptual
Fog”
As a bonus
accompanying the
ThoughtPrint and
ThoughtMap downloads, a
new Perceptual Fog
inventory will be included
and, further treated in
the forthcoming book, "You
Should Just Know, How
Perception Turns to
Reality, Volume 1."
Why “Perceptual Fog?” Just
as we all have language
habits, so too are we
often misunderstood and
misperceived. This new
“Fog” Inventory will point
to potential extremes
which our language habits
can inadvertently press
onto others.

The
Paradigm Shift
Know it or
not, you have a language
paradigm. Ask nearly
anyone on the street in
America, likely globally,
to define “noun” and
“verb.” An immediate,
almost robotic answer:
“person, place, or thing,”
for noun, and “action
word” for verb will
follow. What nearly always
follows is a questioning,
“So what?” look.
Between the ages of 3-5,
humans are language
geniuses, often learning
more than one language,
but unquestionably the
patterns of at least one.
Why do we seem to lose
touch with that
instinctive genius?
Regarding English, the
word-focused Latinate
school model, The LOS
(Latin Operating System)
grammar, does not match
how English-speakers
think. Because English
“works” by patterned word
groups, theExact Word
has captured something
new under the sun
in the patterns of
English, not words.
The
Shifting
You
may have a moment or
two
in the
learning where
you’ll feel confused,
or lost,
or
blank. This
shift may unseat you for a
moment and you might say
something like: “Why
didn’t you tell me this
would happen?!!! Or, “The
fuses blew;” “The lights
went out;” “I fell off a
cliff;” “Learning this is
like blood-letting;” “You
pulled the rug out from
under me.” This kind of
confusion, however, does
not signal “something
wrong.” It signals a real
shift in
understanding. And,
you will be surprised at
how quickly you pass
through those moments. In
fact, because of that
frustration, your Ah Ha!
moments occur.
To learn and practice
every pattern
of meaning in English,
you will see a new
process. You will see how
“Flipped" meaning,
ordering and re-ordering
thought, presents English
as an idea language.
Guaranteed. You will see
“scrambling” and
reordering thought as a
strategy. "Scrambling"
means devaluing the
default or initial context
to shift into a new one by
design. But a
moment, sometimes short,
sometimes longer, will
occur when not seeing the
“old” definition of
language, nor the new one
either, feels very
uncomfortable. Yet
thereby, somehow, new knowledge
begins. Nor has it
been otherwise, as two
ancient texts tell us:
1.) In Plato’s
Dialogues, Socrates’
pupil, Theaetetus,
complained, “But Socrates,
I cannot shake this
anxious feeling.” “My dear
Theaetetus,” Socrates
says, “you are bringing
something to the birth in
you.”
2.) And the
5,000-year old Chinese
text, the I Ching, says
its texts touch the
subconscious in order that
a “… [necessary] … initial
confusion triggers a sort
of landslide of
potential meaning. Being
imaginatively open or
versatile is the key to
the interaction… [a]shen
or awareness of spirit is
excited....This is a
living process.”
theExact Word
will guide you
through the shifting
process to resolve any
discomfort you might feel
as you progress to the “Ah
Ha” moments that always
happen.
With theExact Word
you will literally shift
your paradigm as to how
English really works. And
it’s fun. You’ll see.

The
Methods
Everything
begins with
thought.
Two factors center
your life: thought and
language. We think day
and night, no choice.
We all have
unconscious language
habits, a kind
of
“default” pattern of how
we see the world – detailed,
maybe, or
big picture.
Our
defaults seem normal
to us, and
usual. Everyone,
however, does not
have the same
default style.
So,
having
to communicate
can twist
us
into knots
because we have
to
“think
in
ways we
don’t think.” That
“mental flip” can
make life hard
at home, with loved
ones,
at work, on teams, and
in
writing
whether
on screen, or on paper.
Nonetheless,
make no mistake; that
difficulty is not your
fault. Human
beings are
language geniuses
by
ages 3-5 thus
accepting how
language works without
question.
Why
then do we
struggle
later?
Good
question.
For
one reason,
English
grammar fits another
set of
languages, not English.
Yet,
the reason
we
have the grammar that
we do
rests on
a
very,
very
interesting
story.
For the moment,
know for
certain
that struggles to
communicate are
not your fault. You
simply need a new
language paradigm and
a scheme
of
procedure, and preferably
easy solutions,
not
more years
of exceptions and
misfit models.
The human
brain has more than one
location for language
function. The frontal lobe
houses verbs, or really
“Verbness,” while toward
the back on the left side,
the occipital lobe houses
nouns or really
“Nounness.” Wernicke’s and
Broca’s areas house other
language functions still
awaiting full
understanding by brain
researchers.
Between the frontal and
occipital lobes, an area
of “sentence
implementation” creates
synaptic connections among
the language functions.
Behind that section,
toward the center, the
brain processes color.
Pairing color with the
Verbness and Nounness
lobes has made learning
theExact Word’s
Brain Operating System,
ThoughtPrint Gateways to
Mastery, and ThoughtPrint/
ThoughtMap models vivid.
Magic
The BOS and
ThoughtPrint Gateways to
Mastery Methods connect to
brain functions so
consistently that a Paradigm Pathway has
emerged which bridges theExact Word
Experience
by connecting to life
itself after the workshop
- for example, how we
interpret events, relate
to others, set our
standards. In the
learning, questions,
reactions, and comments
occur in exactly the same
ways, at the same turning
points, and often in the
same words in workshops
and coaching in different
years, different
organizations, at
different occupational
levels. Astounding
really.
One participant in a Texas
company came to a seminar
saying, “I want to learn
these magic keys to
English that everybody’s
talking about.”
Ah Ha!
moments occur during
seminars, and continue
afterward. Students feel
English has consistent
structure after all.
Magically. To support the
on-going Ah Ha! moments,
theExact Word
has begun, in 2012,
expansion of services,
venues, materials, and
feedback for
organizations,
individuals, schools.

Colors?
And Patterns?
Every
English sentence is
bounded by one or more of
four patterns and their
connections. No choice.
How you vary, connect, or
populate them with
vocabulary mirrors your
mind, intention,
imagination, design, and
strengths. We use the
colors to illustrate how
the patterns overlap, a
vivid, graphic
demonstration. With the
givens of four patterns in
English and their color
graphics, you have a
lifetime of both
creativity and secure new
knowledge for “reading
between the lines,”
creating
“lines-of-reasoning,” and
articulate representations
of what you mean to say.
The four patterns and
their colors are follow.
NOTE: Very
Important: Every
other highlighted sentence
on this site illustrates
the four patterns by
colored formula whereas
the four following
paragraphs do not.
Instead, the colors
blanket the definition of
each pattern's meaning,
its "dimensions," so to
speak, rather than the formula
for making each pattern.
Further, the ideas of
"dimensions of meaning"
and "lines-of-reasoning"
have considerable
importance in theExact
Word's methods.
“Orange,”
Background Details
create meaning of
time, place, and
grouping. They
“center” other parts
of the sentence. Or
they provide crucial
information about
where, like “over
the mountains and
through the woods.”
Or grouping: Everybody
went "except
Ralph.”
Therefore, “everybody”
didn’t really go
because Ralph didn’t.
Thus, the detail adds
precision or exactness
as a Background
Dimension of Meaning..
“Pink,”
Conditional Images
mean the circumstances
or conditions which
affect ideas or which
limit them. Primary
Images can become
Conditional Images or
back again, with an
easy flip of the
Conditional Triggers.
Conditional Images
identify the
boundaries of events,
the “whens” and
“wheres” of
circumstance or
“if-thens” of how
things happen as its
Dimension of Meaning.
“If Ralph goes, everybody
relaxes.
“Blue,”
Primary Images mean
the mission, the
“bottom line,” the
skeletal point.
Primary Images
either express
single events or
mental pictures, or
become a kind of
“sentence skeleton”
on which the flesh
of ideas hang and
“wear” the
musculature or
dressing which you
give to thought as
the impact of
Primary Dimensions
of Meaning. “Ralph
left.” Or, Even
though everybody wanted
him
"to
go," Ralph
decided "not
to.”
“Green,”
Process Details,
mean exactly that:
processes. English
speakers “name”
processes by
formula. Processes
occur in time and
have a feeling of
being almost an
“entity,” a thing
in itself. We can
“do them,” like
“baking” or
“running,”
“fried,”
“completed,” “to
plan,” or “to have
only known.” But,
as Process Detail,
Movement expresses
not "action
words," but the
names of
Processes, the
Dimension of
Meaning beyond
vocabulary
definitions.
“Knowing the
others" would
"probably become
tense," Ralph
apologized
for
"not
being able to go."

So
What?
Givens
govern
how we form ideas or
translate thought
to
language. Language
has pattern, no choice. We
think, no choice. Knowing
the givens and knowing
our choices lead
us to
articulate thinking
and
to live
articulated lives.
We use the patterns in
every sentence, whether we
intend to or
not.
Besides, in
English, the idea
language,
the choices are simple to
learn and use.
From
Default to Design:
Strategy
Remember that everything
begins with thought, a
point we must keep in
mind. Whether
you want to get a point
across, aloud, on-paper,
on-line, you want to
express something you
have in mind.
Remember too, however,
that you have three
minds:
1. your
conscious mind with
vocabulary, grammar,
ideas you know
you have;
2.
your
subconscious mind with
thoughts and
perspectives you don't
know you have;
3. the tools in
language patterning
which create meaning around
your words.
An eighth grade girl
in the All Boats
Rise Documentary In
Progress expresses
what so many people say
about writing: the
thoughts don't look on
paper like they did in
my mind.
Your
"third mind," the one
with the patterned tools
of English harnesses
your "second" and
"first" minds.
Knowing your strengths
and language habits
gives you safe ground.
Flipping your thoughts
into other patterns and
thinking with context
automates "reaching
into" your subconscious
mind for
perspectives and
objectivity to frame or
change your first
thoughts.
Imagine a student's
dilemma, or an adult in
the workplace.
Saying the first thing
that comes to mind so
often doesn't
"work." Why?
Who knows? A
student says, "That's
all I got, dude," or
something similar.
An adult says, "Oh, I
give up," or something
similar. Both
mean, "For some reason,
I just can't do
this." Not with
only grammar, or
vocabulary, no.
But add context through
the patterns, and you
have the whole
package; you have
concrete, real tools and
you have your
thoughts. You know
how English really
works. You know
what you want to
say. You gain
objectivity. You
make decisions.
Voila!

Outcomes
Empirical
outcomes and consistently
repeated
participant
responses in
seminars or
workshops indicate
“something new under
the sun.” Thereby
a “Paradigm
Pathway” has
emerged
for tracking
understanding a
new way
of
using language. Thomas
Kuhn famously defined
"paradigm shift" as
the slow "sea
change" in
knowledge which
emerges out
of peer review or replicated
scientific
experience.
However, Kuhn's
definition apparently
does not
address how
individuals shift
paradigms. Therefore,
a further new
knowledge suggests
potentially
contributive new
insights
about English or how
English connects to
intuitive thought.
The
resulting
"Paradigm
Pathway" has
already created
interesting
results
very valuable
for
teaching.
Once
English speakers
experience a
new view
of language,
objectivity becomes
less elusive. Choice
and design of
what
to say and
how to say it increase.
Confidence too
increases.
Understanding
how
others think changes
the tendency to
judge or dismiss.
The forthcoming
Kudos
Hall
of Fame
will chronicle
individual outcomes.
No choice .
. .
Everything we hear, read,
say, and write, falls into
one of four patterns.
Besides having our
ThoughtPrint favorites, we
have to use all four
patterns because that’s
all English has.

Is
she young or old?


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