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Off-topic: Language

 

Yes, "foreign" would me much easier without all those dialects :)

I have fond memories of when I did a presentation, together with two colleagues from the UK, at a convention in the US. Appartently did some in the audience object to the use of Britsh English so in the evaluation we all received afterwards, we laughed out loud at the comment "There should only be Native American speakers" - OK. Time to brush up on my Navajo then :)

(sorry, the thread about bad language triggered this)
 

I was at one point in the UK doing a small presentation on a planned civil project and mentioned we would use bollards to protect against delivery trucks backing into some equipment.? One person (later I realized jokingly) said they were referred to as bollocks over there so never having heard that word I changed my presentation, Powerpoint and all.? This proved quite entertaining in the next, much larger presentation.? I don't usually get that kind of response to a Powerpoint presentation!

Peter

On 9/2/2019 1:12 PM, Anders wrote:
Yes, "foreign" would me much easier without all those dialects :)

I have fond memories of when I did a presentation, together with two colleagues from the UK, at a convention in the US. Appartently did some in the audience object to the use of Britsh English so in the evaluation we all received afterwards, we laughed out loud at the comment "There should only be Native American speakers" - OK. Time to brush up on my Navajo then :)

(sorry, the thread about bad language triggered this)
 

A month ago I have received - here in the UK - a letter from our Australian customer.?
You just don't get them like this anymore - nice envelope, other hemisphere stamps, good paper, old style font and hand signed.
Reasonably serious, technical business letter - including the F-word used for seemingly no particular reason!
Leo
 

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Hello,

cherish the client for he will bring you good business over the years to come.


The old adage of go woke, go broke holds truth. Scream mobs might be loud, but usually cannot be sustained for long. Conservatives, on the other hand, usually have a long "leash" - but when the spark hits the RDX, the party is started.


Also, my compliments to the civil discussion here. A big honor to be among all of you.

Tam


With best regards
Tam HANNA 

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On 2019. 09. 02. 20:13, Leo Bodnar wrote:

A month ago I have received - here in the UK - a letter from our Australian customer.?
You just don't get them like this anymore - nice envelope, other hemisphere stamps, good paper, old style font and hand signed.
Reasonably serious, technical business letter - including the F-word used for seemingly no particular reason!
Leo

 

Tourettes? Maybe he was dictating the letter for an assistant to hand write? I love it!
 

I was in a meeting once, where a Japanese company was negotiating a business deal with an American company.? The Japanese company was represented by a group of Japanese executives and lowly me.? The American company was represented by a group of American executives.

It didn't occur to me at the time, but a couple of the Americans were using some metaphors, figures of speech and slang during their presentations.? In private, after the meeting was over, the Japanese participants approached me with a list of words and phrases that they had recorded and did not understand.? They had been much too polite to interrupt the Americans for clarifications, and now wanted me to explain concepts such as: "What is 'a horse of a different color'?"

Sometimes, it's best to communicate in formal English, without any added cultural flavoring!??:-)
 

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Hmmmm,? while I agree slang does cause problems, one only has to look at global diplomacy to determine that formal language works no better.

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steve

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I was in a meeting once, where a Japanese company was negotiating a business deal with an American company.? The Japanese company was represented by a group of Japanese executives and lowly me.? The American company was represented by a group of American executives.

It didn't occur to me at the time, but a couple of the Americans were using some metaphors, figures of speech and slang during their presentations.? In private, after the meeting was over, the Japanese participants approached me with a list of words and phrases that they had recorded and did not understand.? They had been much too polite to interrupt the Americans for clarifications, and now wanted me to explain concepts such as: "What is 'a horse of a different color'?"

Sometimes, it's best to communicate in formal English, without any added cultural flavoring!??:-)

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