'intentional'

[Geoffrey Steven Nathan]

That's exactly right. I'd never heard of 'intentional communities' until I went looking for the origins of this term.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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and Professor, Linguistics Program
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> From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 7:38:02 PM
> Subject: Re: 'intentional'

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> On Jan 14, 2014, at 4:27 PM, Geoff Nathan wrote:

> > Yup--that's how I understand the word. But the Educationese
> > speakers have something different in mind…

> Related, perhaps, to "intentional communities"? Maybe that's what you
> were getting at with the ref. to religious contexts.

> LH
> >
> > Geoffrey S. Nathan
> > Faculty Liaison, C&IT
> > and Professor, Linguistics Program
> > http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
> > +1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT)
> >
> > Nobody at Wayne State will EVER ask you for your password. Never
> > send it to anyone in an email, no matter how authentic the email
> > looks.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >> From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at att.net>
> >> To: "Geoffrey S. Nathan" <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>,
> >> ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:24:56 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] 'intentional'
> >
> >> At 1/14/2014 12:34 PM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan wrote:
> >>> My current favorite is 'intentional', which has begun appearing
> >>> in
> >>> higher education planning contexts in the past year or so. It
> >>> seems
> >>> to be quite old in other (religious) contexts, but when our
> >>> associate Provost for retention insists that any planning in that
> >>> area be 'intentional', she seems to mean something like what
> >>> actors
> >>> mean when they talk about 'being in the moment'.
> >>>
> >>> It's not the opposite of 'accidental', but rather something like
> >>> 'with full consciousness of what we're doing'.
> >
> >> "The creation of traffic gridlock on the George Washington Bridge
> >> for
> >> four days in September 2013 was intentional."
> >
> >> Report of the Investigative Committee of the Port Authority of New
> >> York and New Jersey on the Closing of Entrance Lanes from Fort
> >> Lee,
> >> New Jersey, to the George Washington Bridge from September 9 to
> >> September 13, 2013 (New York and New Jersey: 2014). page [only
> >> galley
> >> proofs available to date].
> >
> >> Joel
> >
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