by Christine Burgmer | Nov 14, 2015 | Allgemein |
“My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.”
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 13, 2015 | Allgemein |
If you’d like to test what kind of a genius you are, take a look at this article here (link to inc.com) and then look at your desk. Are you more like Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Virginia Woolf or Charles Darwin?...
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 12, 2015 | Allgemein |
No, you can’t say that your colleague is a ‘lucky mushroom’. That won’t work in English. But what you can say is that he or she is a ‘lucky devil’. And if you can’t remember that, just say, “Oh lucky you” or...
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 11, 2015 | Allgemein |
…. that is the question. I’ve attended several presentations where the presenters have used laser pointers. I’ve not really given it much thought until now. However, after having watched SMART as Hell’s short and sweet video clip, I’ve...
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 10, 2015 | Allgemein |
A lot of people are not sure about this here. When you close an email or a letter, you only have to capitalise the first word. So we write: Best wishes Kind regards Yours sincerely.
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 9, 2015 | Allgemein |
Gertrude Stein once said, “Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.” And William Arthur Ward, along the same lines, said, “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” So how can we express our...
