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Commonly Misused Words 3: Wisdom from 1922

Here are a few more fine distinctions from the 1922 pamphlet S.O.S. Slips of Speech by Frank H. Vizetelly, Litt.D., L.L.D. 1.Hypercritical/Hypocritical Hypercritical means overly or excessively critical. Hypocritical signifies deceptive, sham, for hypocrisy is false pretense. 2.Idea/Opinion Idea implies something undetermined in the mind; Opinion is formed after deduction or reflection and therefore is determined 3.Idleness/Laziness These words are not synonymous. Idleness describes […]

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Business Costs of Poor Communication and How to Avoid Them

What are the costs of poor communication? For 400 companies with over 100,000 employees in the U.S. and U.K, the estimated cost of employee miscommunication is $37 billion. The average cost per company is $62.4 million per year. Smaller companies face significant costs as well. A study of 4,000 employees showed almost half (46%) were

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Perils of Tiny Typing

I received an email recently that contained the signature line: “Expect typos.” Why should I expect typos? I expect people to avoid them, especially in business correspondence. Cell phones breed typos. Granted, when one is typing with thumbs on a tiny screen, errors are more likely to creep in. But this does not mean that

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Emailing Promise lands Enron Exec in Prison

Email misjudgments can land people in jail. Just ask James A. Brown, ex-Merrill Lynch executive who wrote in an email that Enron had “promised” that Merrill would get their money back in a suspicious Enron deal involving barges off the coast of Nigeria. According to the Wall Street Journal (10/23/10) “a possible turning point came when investigators

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Hyphens are Word Glue

Hyphens connect multiple words to make one word. They often have a significant impact on the meaning of the word. Sometimes they turn a verb phrase into a noun. Sometimes they connect several words to make an adjective. For example: Set-Up Set up is a verb phrase composed of the verb set and the adverb up. Up tells you in what

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Commonly Misused Words 3: Wisdom from 1922

Business Costs of Poor Communication and How to Avoid Them

Perils of Tiny Typing

Emailing Promise lands Enron Exec in Prison

Hyphens are Word Glue

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Commonly Misused Words 3: Wisdom from 1922

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