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Category Archives: Monday smiles
Monday smile – Negotiating positions
Enjoy the week ahead!
Monday smile – The Oxford comma has personality
Following the recent settlement of the Oxford comma dispute involving a dairy and some truck drivers¹ (see here, for example), you may enjoy perusing the Twitter account of the Oxford comma @IamOxfordComma. 🙂
Monday smile – Promises, promises
To start the week on a light note, a riff on restrictive covenants by our good friend Ken Adams @KonciseD, blogger extraordinaire at Adams on Contract Drafting, and author of the authoritative work The Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, now in its fourth edition. Continue reading
Monday smile – From bafflegab to globaloney
As a “Part 2” to last week’s post on the BBC’s coverage of Davos language, I’d like to point you to a whole host of examples of business jargon.
In the title above, “bafflegab” is a word for jargon used in the Pentagon in the 1960s, updated to “globaloney” by a BBC contributor. 🙂
Monday smile – Deciphering jargon at the World Economic Forum
Regular readers will know how much I ‘love’ jargon. So when I saw the BBC coverage of Davos referring to it as a “crime against the English language”, I just couldn’t resist. 🙂
Monday smile – Nutella riots
Although Nutella was created by an Italian company, Ferrero, the product is also a deeply rooted part of food culture in France – especially for breakfast and as a tea-time snack. So when the supermarket chain Intermarché decided to run a promotion with a 950 g pot of Nutella at EUR 1.41, it was bound to be very popular.
However… it was *way* more popular than the retailer expected.
Monday smile – Offending language
An American judge, Cecilia M. Altonaga of the Southern District of Florida, responded to an extremely badly written complaint by requiring the lawyer in question to get his next pleading “reviewed and approved by a teacher of the English language“. 🙂
Monday smile – Language barrier stops robbery
In this week’s news… a Chinese restaurant in the United States – Vermont to be precise – managed to avoid being robbed because the criminal didn’t get the message across. Continue reading
Monday smile – Santa & building compliance
A Swedish building firm has calculated the load-bearing capacity of national roofs to withstand Santa, the reindeer, the sleigh, and the presents. Yes, really. 🙂 Continue reading
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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