seanahan
I'm choosing this word to introduce the tag NFUWE.
Oct 19, 2007
reesetee
Wow. It shouldn't be surprising that such creatures exist, and yet....
Oct 18, 2007
sumit
A "facilitator" who actually manipulates the participants in a conversation or meeting towards particular conclusions or outcomes. For example, critics of Gordon Brown's citizen juries suggest that facipulators are employed to ensure that the juries don't come up with suggestions far removed from government policy.
Oct 18, 2007
‘facipulator’ has been looked up 623 times, added to 7 lists, commented on 5 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word.
sumit @seanahan: an ugly word for an ugly occupation. Oct 22, 2007
vanishedone I did some very cursory research on facipulator, and couldn't establish whether it was originally coined as a pejorative term applied to others or as a descriptive term applied by facipulators to themselves; it's been used in both ways. At any rate it seems to have been in use since at least 1995. Oct 21, 2007
seanahan I'm choosing this word to introduce the tag NFUWE. Oct 19, 2007
reesetee Wow. It shouldn't be surprising that such creatures exist, and yet.... Oct 18, 2007
sumit A "facilitator" who actually manipulates the participants in a conversation or meeting towards particular conclusions or outcomes. For example, critics of Gordon Brown's citizen juries suggest that facipulators are employed to ensure that the juries don't come up with suggestions far removed from government policy. Oct 18, 2007