Posted in Communication, Language on June 25th, 2005 No Comments »
One of the intriguing things about looking at blog statistics is, over time, you see what interests people. And, at least to some small degree, you can see who is interested in what posts.
Of all the posts I’ve written, the one that keeps coming up is Language as a communication barrier, which I posted just […]
Posted in Books, Communication, Language on April 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
Because I have something of an obsession with wind and weather, I recently read Scott Huler’s Defining the Wind : The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry. It turns out to be an interesting, if somewhat eccentric, study of making something useable.
If nothing else, the book illustrates how the idea […]
Posted in Communication, Language, Writing on April 2nd, 2005 No Comments »
When you do a lot of writing sometimes you get sloppy. Sometimes when you’re very busy, things slip through that shouldn’t. And sometimes … well, sometimes you’re just dumb.
Seth Godin’s post Does language matter more? touches on how we can look pretty silly when we use the wrong words. And the post just below it, […]
Posted in Language on March 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Over at Ripples, David has posted Have we reached a tipping point in American employment? And he’s touched on several aspects of today’s corporate work world that make me want to tear my hair out.
I call it The Emperor Has No Clothes Phenomenon – the business of saying something is one thing when it is […]
