It may not be strong medicine, but it delivers an effective, pleasing dose of pure sentiment and vicarious heartache.
"If that's your view of effective leadership, please stop," Mr. Pawlenty said.
Effective immediately, please accept our resignation…".
The meme-ification of protest signs was on full show, too, with offerings from, "Say 'Strong and Stable' One More Time – I Dare You!" with an image of Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction, to simple, effective puns: "Please May You Fuck Off".
We can, however, often fruitfully discuss emerging linguistic innovations if we keep in mind three main goals of language use: effective communication, pleasing expression and moral solidarity.
If I feel within myself that I can be very effective, and pleasing to myself -- not necessarily to my team, but to myself -- I think I would continue pitching.
After a sluggish start to his inaugural season as sporting director and head coach, Berhalter's team finished the year with eight wins in their final 11 regular-season matches, and did so in a way that was both effective and pleasing to the eye.
But given how inseparable we now are from our gadgets, having somewhere to plug in our tablets and the like is an easy and effective way to please customers.
Oh, and for more nitty gritty suggestions about how kids can be more effective with homework, please see my blog post affectionately titled Homework is stupid and I hate everything.
