by Christine Burgmer | Nov 25, 2014 | Allgemein |
Abbreviations (those are the shortened forms of words) can be difficult to understand. Only use them if you know that your readers will understand them. You might even like to spell them out the first time you use them in an email or letter if you really want to use them later in the text.
Instead of … write …
approx. approximately or about
asap as soon as possible
BTW by the way
DIY do it yourself
Fyi for your information
HQ headquarters
max. maximum
min. minimum
24/7 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 22, 2014 | Allgemein |
The factory foreman inspected a shipment of crystal vases leaving the plant, and approached his new packer. He put his arm around the man’s shoulder and said, “Well, Ole, I see you did what I asked. You stamped the top of each box, ‘This Side Up, Handle With Care.’”
“Yes sir,” the worker replied. “And just to make sure, I stamped it on the bottom too.”
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 21, 2014 | Allgemein |
Managing your time
You’ll find lots of ideas on how to improve your time management skills in Harold Taylor’s checklist. I’m working on number 21 at the moment: “Don’t keep shuffling papers; handle each item only once whenever possible. Do it, scrap it, file it, delegate it or schedule a time to do it later.” And you?
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 20, 2014 | Allgemein |
You want to tell a colleague or business partner that you go to a ‘Fitnessstudio’. We’d most probably say that we’re a member of the ‘gym’ or the ‘health club’.
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 19, 2014 | Allgemein |
How can we use eye contact in a presentation? Carl Kwan is back again to give us some good tips in his short video clip.
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 18, 2014 | Allgemein |
I could have written, “Look what I have done” in today’s heading, but I chose to add a contraction. In this example sentence, I formed one word (I’ve) by joining two together (I have) and dropping some letters and adding an apostrophe.
Why did I do it? To make my writing less stuffy and more natural. It’s what I would say to you if we met in person.
Here’s my list of common contractions. Do you know them all? Do you use them?
cannot can’t he/she will he’ll/she’ll
do not don’t he/she would he’d/she’d
I am I’m they are they’re
I will I’ll they will they’ll
I would I’d there is there’s
it is it’s will not won’t
it will it’ll you are you’re
he/she is he’s/she’s you will you’ll
