Tag: Linguistics
Why You Should Never Cross Your Arms Again
Body language is older and more innate for us as humans than even language or facial expressions. That’s why people born blind can perform...
Infographic: Six Body Language Tips For Your Next Interview
A huge amount of the communication that takes place in a job interview is non-verbal. This means that candidates have to be aware of...
The Sales Shrink: Behavior Therapy #8 – “Listen With Your Eyes”
by Tina Cherpes, Featured Contributor
“IT's LIKE herding cats” Jodie chuckled as she described a typical Saturday afternoon coaching her nine-year-old daughter’s soccer team. “I...
185 Powerful Verbs That Will Make Your Resume Awesome
Most resume bullet points start with the same words. Frankly, the same tired old words hiring managers have heard over and over—to the point...
Stick A Fork In Business Buzzwords: 15 Common Phrases To Kill
The business world is ripe with raconteurs, rhetoricians and grandiloquent speakers – which is to say that many businesspeople use unwieldy elaborations of common...
The 39 Worst Words, Phrases, and Parts of Speech of 2013
Many words were spoken in 2013. Not all of them were created equal. Here is a brief, but by no means complete, guide to...
‘You and I’ versus ‘You and Me’
Between you and I, being both a linguist and an editor sometimes leads to conflicting feelings — and, just between you and me, phrases...
Mentor Arithmetic
“The easiest and fastest way to learn is from other people. Without other people, the old wheel must be reinvented again and again and...
English Has a New Preposition “Because” Internet
Let's start with the dull stuff, because pragmatism. The word "because," in standard English usage, is a subordinating conjunction, which means that it connects...
6 Things You Need to Know About Body Language
Giving an interview or speech? Better read through this list to find out whether your body language is turning off the audience. via 6 things...
