Can you imagine functioning in your role as a communicator without email? Impossible. We have become fully dependent upon the tool. Sure, we may complain about the number of emails we receive, but at the same time, we can easily rhyme off the advantages of having email in our lives. For example:
Simple communication with a [...]
The LPGA this week announced a controversial communications policy that will tie the hands of many international female golfers. As Lorne Rubinstein reported in The Globe and Mail, the world’s most lucrative female golf association has invoked a policy that insists “its players speak English to a certain standard or face suspension of their membership.”
How [...]
I have been watching the Democratic National Convention – the coronation of Barack Obama. Much has been written over the last decade or two about the irrelevance of the major parties’ conventions, how they don’t really mean anything since nominees are almost always decided through the primaries system.
But ever since I campaigned for George McGovern [...]
One of the worst communications phenomena of our time is upspeak. In the 1980s it emerged as the comical accent of “Valley Girls,” where ditzy kids would have an interrogative cadence to everything they said.
Now, it’s everywhere. And it must be stopped.
Upspeak makes you sound uncertain, as if every sentence is a question. Almost every [...]
I don’t know about other the language of other professions, but public relations seems to have its own dialect. Perhaps they’re heard in most areas of marketing, but here are a few words and phrases that make me grimace:
“On our radar” – it seems like this phrase is blurted out at least a few times [...]
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Lorna Freeman