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And I believe it's very helpful to have terms to distinguish the tools that you find useful from the ones you feel are counterproductive or downright pernicious.
But saying it so baldly, and then repeating it, is counterproductive.
Madison Avenue propaganda is counterproductive.
On August 22, the reclusive Mullah Omar told a working-level State Department official that the strikes were counterproductive but added that he would be open to a dialogue with the United States on Bin Ladin's presence in Afghanistan.
I am not sure that I should have characterized the perpetuation of obsolete or archaic meanings as “counterproductive”: perhaps “wrong,” “misleading,” “ambiguous,” or “old-fashioned” would have been closer to the mark; phrased another way, I must agree that people ought to use words in their current senses if they expect to be understood.