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Postscript (this is what it is to transform
something):
Werner
says
"Talk isn't cheap: we
cheapen talk.".
So as accurate
languaging
has
inexorably
devolved
into
jargon,
to "transform" something has colloquially come to mean to "change"
it - and worse, to "fix" it, to "improve" it, to make it "right",
to make it "better" etc etc. The feel-good warm fuzzy
that it's in danger of being obfuscated by, looms menacingly.
In fact it's none of the above. To "transform" something, is to
create / generate / be responsible for the
context
in which it shows up. In its purest sense, to transform something
is to
recontextualize
it (I love that word).
Without this definition thoroughly scrutinized and firmly bolted in
place in this conversation's boilerplate, it's unlikely that the
distinction
"I can't transform what I
make wrong"
will have lasting power, if any at all.
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