One Managing Director always scheduled meetings late on a Friday afternoon. One of the employees finally decided to ask his boss why. The boss replied, “It’s very simple really. Friday is the only time of the week when no-one seems to want to argue with me.”
If you like online language games, you might like to try Merriam-Webster’s game called ‘True or False‘. It has all sorts of general knowledge questions. They call it a quick quiz ‘about stuff worth knowing’. I’m not sure about that, but you might like to give it a try and see how far you get.
“In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.” George Mikes
So are you more of a morning or an evening person? Or are you a mix of both? Do this quiz to find out. (I particularly like the last question!)
Teacher: “How far is it to India?”
Susan: “Well, it can’t be too far. My friend Rulie comes from India, and she goes home for her dinner every day.”
In English the word ‘informations‘ does not exist. So if you want to say that you need ‘Informationen’, you would say that you need ‘information’!
