‘Ventilator’ Multiple Meanings Thread

1. With all the comms concerning ‘Ventilators’, let’s go Back2Basics and look into the meaning(s), or VALUES, of words.

Warning: I’m also applying this exercise of valuing language to introduce your brain to #QuantumSyntaxGrammar. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1254050117767880706

2. Ventilator (noun)

1.: one that ventilates: such as

a : a contrivance for introducing fresh air or expelling foul or stagnant air
b : RESPIRATOR sense 2

Staying with 1a, let’s break it down further and define “Contrivance”.

3. Contrivance (noun)
1a: a thing contrived especially: a mechanical device modern contrivances to cook food faster
b: an artificial arrangement

2: the act or faculty of contriving : the state of being contrived

We can determine Ventilators can be machines or a state of being

4. Let’s expand our minds and go on the path less traveled by defining the transitive verb ‘Contrive’.

5. Contrive (verb)
1a: DEVISE, PLAN
contrive ways of handling the situation

b: to form or create in an artistic or ingenious manner contrived household utensils from stone

2: to bring about by stratagem or with difficulty : MANAGE

intransitive verb
: to make schemes

6. Almost there

Stratagem (noun)
1a: an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy
b: a cleverly contrived trick or scheme for gaining an end

2: skill in ruses or trickery

For this example, let’s apply definition 1a

7. Artifice (noun)
1a: clever or artful skill: INGENUITY
b: an ingenious device or expedient

2a: an artful stratagem: TRICK
b : false or insincere behavior
social artifice

Using 1b, that can also refer to a person or people. Said differently, SOLDIERS

7. Now the fun!!!

Let’s define ‘Ventilator’ using the definitions we identified as we peeled the layers of the word. Then we’ll apply it to Trump’s Tweet (in this case).

8. Now the line in Trump’s Tweet reads:

“His country needs a PLAN IN WAR FOR DECIEVING AND OUTWITTING THE ENEMY using AN INGENIOUS SEVICE OR EXPEDIENT introducing fresh air or expelling foul or stagnant air, and the U.S. is in good position to help him. We will!”

9. Yes, ‘ventilator’ is a machine to assist in the act of breathing.
BUT
We’ve found it also can mean (at the same time) the Military are doing their Patriot thing
#VentilatorsMountUp
#Ventilator
#DigitalSoldier
#InThisToGetHer