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Financial Advisor August 2006 Richard B. Wagner |
Retirement Is The Wrong Word The financial planning industry, and perhaps our culture as a whole, needs a better word to describe people of a certain age -- and retired is not it! Here are some suggestions. |
Fast Company July 2006 |
Grammatical Usage: Are We Concepting Yet? One site has a petition to get the word "concepting" into the dictionary. |
The Motley Fool July 5, 2006 Anders Bylund |
To Google or Not to Google According to The Oxford English Dictionary, you can now Google away to your heart's content. But verbing isn't always a good thing. Is Google doomed to become just another word in the dictionary? |
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Paul McFedries |
The Web, Take Two Inventive wordsmiths are constantly forging new additions to the lexicon by blending words and creating neologisms out of thin air. The tech buzz currently manufacturing new words is Web. 2.0. So, what the heck is it? |
DailyCandy April 21, 2006 |
Just Can't Get You out of My Head Like a catchy tune that you just can't shake, Earworms Musical Brain Trainers layer basic foreign words and phrases over pleasant instrumental tracks. After listening to the songs a few times, you'll find that you've picked up some useful lingo. |
Wired April 2006 Michael Erard |
The Mandarin Offensive Inside Beijing's global campaign to make Chinese the number one language in the world. |
Real Travel Adventures December 2005 Antonio Graceffo |
On Learning the Awful Chinese Language You don't know how much you need to learn a new language until you live there. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2005 Michael B. Horwitz |
Metaphorically Speaking Despite the obvious communicative advantages, there is also significant risk in using metaphors and analogies to describe financial markets and other complex phenomena. Financial advisers need to exert caution when speaking with clients. |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2005 |
Bulls and Bears, Oh My! Ever wonder what the terms "bull" and "bear" mean in relation to the stock market? Wonder no more. |
AskMen.com Ryan Murphy |
Weird Expressions & Their Origins - Part 3 Graveyard shift? Lollygagging? Kick the Bucket? Cut to the Chase? If your head is swimming with undefined idioms, the real man's dictionary will bring you to shore. |
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