“Fake It – Till You Make It”
Courtesy: www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org
By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
Originally, a Potemkin Village was any construction whose sole purpose was to provide an external façade making people believe a failing country was prosperous.
DEFINITION: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
The term comes from a fake portable village built to impress Empress Catherine II by her lover Grigory Potemkin, during her journey to Crimea, in 1787.
The term “Potemkin” has spawned other linguistic machinations, as well:
P-NUMBERS: Are made up and appear to be valid and legitimate but are not based in reality.
P-POLITICS: Candidates who say have a certain amount of donated money but have actually received less.
P-HOSPITALS: Impressive, but actually sham facades, in Wuhan, China?
P-NETWORKS: Erroneous quantitative data point like “counts”, “likes” or “winks” for posts on social media forums or e-boards; etc.
LINK: https://thefuturebuzz.com/2012/06/12/social-proofiness-spotting-digital-potemkin-numbers/
Conclusion: Do you know of any other word derivations? Please opine.
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