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<br />Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-80648847845726369952013-02-20T08:41:00.001-08:002013-02-20T08:41:25.716-08:00Benjamin Franklin, el precursor<br />
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publicada en 1793, el político estadounidense escribió un programa de
autosuperación con trece metas. Ese “manual”, con su aplicación práctica, hoy
es el ABC del género.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Benjamin Franklin armaba unos cuadros en los que al final del día hacía una
marca para cada una de las faltas en cada categoría.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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haya sido el padre del género de autoayuda en los Estados Unidos –por lo menos
de la rama más dura–, pero es irrefutablemente así. En su autobiografía La vida
privada de Benjamin Franklin, publicada en 1793, describe una leve crisis
personal que lo llevó a armar un programa de autosuperación. Consistía,
primero, en señalar sus faltas morales; segundo, en identificar las virtudes
que quería adoptar y perfeccionar; y por último, armar un programa sistemático
para eliminar sus fallas mediante la práctica consciente de las virtudes.
Eligió trece: templanza, silencio, orden, determinación, frugalidad,
diligencia, sinceridad, justicia, moderación, limpieza, tranquilidad, castidad
y humildad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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estos valores a la vez, pero sí tenerlos como metas prácticas y concentrarse en
vivir guiado por uno de ellos cada semana. De esa manera, a través de los años,
fue cambiando sus hábitos. Franklin entendía que cada uno de estos valores se
complementa. Para vigilarse a sí mismo armó una grilla con las virtudes en el
eje vertical y los días de la semana en el horizontal. Al final de cada día
hacía una marca para cada una de sus faltas en cada categoría (aunque cada
semana –recuerden– el enfoque era en sólo una). Al mismo tiempo, para
complementar este programa de reprogramación moral, armó un estricto cronograma
de actividades diarias.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">En su autobiografía cuenta que al comenzar
con este plan se sorprendió al ver que tenía muchas más faltas de lo que se
imaginaba, pero que –por otro lado– le dio satisfacción ver cómo iban disminuyendo
con el tiempo. Fue fiel al programa por años, siempre observando sus faltas y
buscando eliminarlas. Nunca se iba de viaje sin su libreta de grillas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">Lo que hasta el día de hoy une la
Autobiografía de Franklin con el género de autoayuda en su mejor expresión, es
la fe en la posibilidad de la autosuperación, por un lado, y un programa
sistemático –basado en datos duros y de estricto seguimiento– para lograr unas
metas específicas, por el otro. Libros como How to gain control of your time
and your life (Alan Lakein, 1974), The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People
(Stephen R. Covey, 1989) y Getting Things Done (David Allen, 2002) –cada uno un
éxito de ventas pero, más importante, una emblema de su momento cultural–
siguen el mismo formato de Franklin: identificar un problema, diseñar un
escenario alternativo deseado, y finalmente armar un programa sistemático para
implementar el cambio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">El elemento clave siempre es el
reconocimiento de que estamos hechos por nuestros hábitos. Si hay un problema
de nuestro carácter, es solucionable porque está construido por nuestros
hábitos. La autoayuda de la escuela de Franklin –por decirlo así– obliga al
sujeto a mirarse a sí mismo con un ojo científico, casi tayloriano. Esta
actitud puede parecer impersonal y fría, pero su meta final es la suprema
abstracción humana: la felicidad. Lo que logra es hacer de la felicidad una
meta factible y una responsabilidad de uno mismo. No se trata simplemente de
tener buenos pensamientos o de echarle la culpa al entorno. Tampoco se respalda
en lo supernatural o lo pseudo-científico. Dice que somos lo que hacemos, por
lo tanto, si queremos cambiar lo que somos, lo que tenemos que hacer es cambiar
lo que hacemos. Y eso lejos de ser una meta abstracta puede ser un
procedimiento pragmático y mensurable. Sólo se puede determinar si un programa
funciona o no si hay confiables mediciones sobre su progreso.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">A pesar de todo, la autoayuda no suele tener
una buena reputación. Un “intelectual” no confesaría leer títulos de este
género como tampoco que lee novelas románticas. Este también fue el caso, hace
muchos años, del género policial, que ahora ha sido absorbido por la “alta
cultura.” Ciertos títulos de autoayuda han logrado pasar esta barrera –en
general arbitraria– entre la alta y la baja cultura. David Allen fue perfilado
en WIRED. Tim Ferriss, el escritor de autoayuda seria del momento, ha sido tema
de una nota reciente en The New Yorker. Ambas revistas cultivan una clientela
cultural ABC1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt;">Lean la sección de la autobiografía de
Franklin. Observen sus métodos, y vean cómo se repiten en libros
contemporáneos. Podríamos crear un test Franklin para los libros de autoayuda,
para determinar cuáles vale la pena leerse. Los únicos que tienen una chance de
ser útiles son los que se basan en un plan de cambiar hábitos con la creencia
de que estrictas modificaciones, pequeñas y sistemáticas, son la única forma de
lograr cambios trascendentes en uno mismo. Y que ese plan de cambio de hábitos
sea simple, riguroso y medible. Todo lo demás son promesas al aire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-54389124031434326272013-01-15T10:45:00.004-08:002013-01-15T10:45:59.823-08:00Muriel Spark<br />
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<i><span lang="ES-AR">En “Muy lejos de
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<span lang="ES-AR">Muriel Spark ha sido para muchos de nosotros un
gran descubrimiento. Sin embargo para los lectores que hoy rondan los sesenta y
son buenos conocedores de la novela en lengua inglesa, se trata de una vieja
conocida. Escribió veintidós novelas de las cuales, como señala David Lodge, al
menos diez se convirtieron en clásicos por el simple hecho de que invitan a
leerlas una y otra vez. El comentario de Lodge viene a cuenta de una biografía
de Spark editada en 2010 que puso nuevamente en los suplementos literarios el
nombre de esta escritora nacida y criada en Edimburgo, de padre judío y madre
inglesa, cuya juventud distó mucho de aquellos apacibles últimos años que pasó
junto a sus gatos en <st1:personname productid="La Toscana. Vivi" w:st="on"><st1:personname productid="La Toscana." w:st="on">La Toscana.</st1:personname> Vivió</st1:personname>
en la actual Zimbawe, logró escapar de un marido desequilibrado, quiso estar en
Londres en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial y para seguir ese deseo dejó a su hijo
al cuidado de otros -decisión que le valió críticas despiadadas-, trabajó en el
Departamento de Inteligencia del Foreign Office -"el trabajo era
maravillosamente interesante", diría, "mi parte era muy pequeña, pero
como una mosca en la pared adquirí todo un mundo de método e intriga"- y
más tarde en el campo editorial. Aunque uno de los hitos en su vida sea el de su
conversión al catolicismo. Se trata de esas obras que ponen en entredicho lo
que durante años proclamó la academia o lo que ingenuamente creíamos cuando
estudiábamos: que una cosa es la vida y otra la escritura. Se trata siempre de
lo mismo, por más que hoy en pleno siglo XXI la experiencia revista un carácter
casi virtual y a años luz del cuerpo a cuerpo del siglo pasado. Al menos en el
mundo Occidental.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Para quienes hemos leído lo que de ella viene
publicando <st1:personname productid="La Bestia Equil£tera" w:st="on"><st1:personname productid="La Bestia" w:st="on">La Bestia</st1:personname> Equilátera</st1:personname>
con el asombro de la novedad – <b>Los
encubridores</b>, <b>Memento Mori</b>, <b>La intromisión</b>-, <b>Muy lejos de Kensington </b>es otra muestra de la maestría de una
narradora que sabe lo que hace. Se trata de una novela que se lee de un tirón,
con la estructura más propia de una <i>nouvelle</i>
que de la novela tradicional. Publicada en 1958, en <b>A far cry from Kensington</b> –tal su título original- nos encontramos
con una trama en principio pequeña que se va construyendo a través de
disgresiones, reflexiones, descripciones de la narradora – Spark ama los
detalles, ama la “verdad” del relato- pero que luego va tomando velocidad, una
velocidad a la inglesa donde no faltan los anónimos, el oscurantismo ni la
intervención policial. Quien marca el ritmo es <st1:personname productid="la Sra. Hawkins" w:st="on"><st1:personname productid="la Sra." w:st="on">la Sra.</st1:personname> Hawkins</st1:personname>, esta mujer de
sólo veintinueve años obesa y ya viuda –ambas, autora y personaje casadas con
hombres violentos-, que en el transcurso de la novela bajará significativamente
de peso y dejará de ser la generosa matrona confesora de los otros para
convertirse simplemente en Nancy. Esta transformación narrada con ironía, como
la consecuencia lógica de un descubrimiento –que todos los empleados de la
editorial que la acaba de contratar tienen algún defecto físico notable- y de
una decisión irrevocable –comer sólo la mitad de lo que hay en el plato-, es
uno de los motores de la narración y sintetiza la particularidad del estilo de
Spark. Detalles que la mirada magnifica y que son capaces de dar vuelta una
trama. Si en <b>Memento Mori</b> Spark se
detenía en la comunidad de ancianos en el geriátrico, aquí los universos
elegidos son dos: el de una pensión londinense de la posguerra –donde no falta
la modista polaca con terror a ser deportada o la joven soltera embarazada- y
el endogámico mundillo editorial. Y aquí,
para cualquiera que algo conozca sobre el círculo en cuestión, los
comentarios de <st1:personname productid="la Sra. Hawkins" w:st="on"><st1:personname productid="la Sra." w:st="on">la Sra.</st1:personname> Hawkins</st1:personname>
son imperdibles. Ella es como una heroína que escucha y aconseja a editores en
bancarrota, empleados que sistemáticamente se quedan sin trabajo, autores
mediocres empecinados en publicar libros mal escritos y a la glamorosa Emma Loy
encaprichada en darle una mano -o sacarse de encima- al impresentable Hector Barlett. Un auténtico
"<i>pisseur de copie</i>" como lo
llama <st1:personname productid="la Sra. Hawkins" w:st="on"><st1:personname productid="la Sra." w:st="on">la Sra.</st1:personname> Hawkins</st1:personname>
para delicia de algunos y bronca del hombre en cuestión.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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naturalidad de un estilo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Hay algo sumamente irreverente en Spark. Algo
que excede, incluso, el trabajo con el humor o la ironía, algo que puede
llevarnos a pensar en, por ejemplo, Hebe Uhart. Porque una tiene la sensación
de que escriben sobre lo que les da la gana, sin prestar atención al ojo ajeno
ni a ningún tipo de convención o forma. Y aunque sepamos que sólo se trata de
un efecto debajo del cual hay un gran cuidado por la narración, nos dejamos
llevar por la naturalidad de un estilo. Por eso, quizás, es en las novelas
breves o en los cuentos largos, formas en todo caso que permiten una mayor
libertad, donde el mecanismo mejor les funciona. Y mientras más libertad se
permiten, mejor les va. Como en esta novela de Spark, donde ella intercala en
la narración, reflexiones que incluyen desde la mejor manera de adelgazar, las
ventajas para las mujeres de disimular nuestras habilidades, hasta consejos
sobre cómo escribir una novela: "usted le está escribiendo una carta a un
amigo", dice <st1:personname productid="la Sra. Hawkins" w:st="on">la Sra.
Hawkins</st1:personname>, "escriba de forma privada, no pública, sin
miedo ni timidez, hasta el final de la carta como si no fuese a ser publicada
nunca, de modo que su verdadero amigo la lea una y otra vez y luego desee
recibir más de esas encantadoras cartas suyas". Y una quisiera tomar nota
para aprender de una verdadera maestra y nunca caer en la grandilocuencia del
pisseur de copie; pero claro, al igual que Hector Barlett, todos llegamos tarde
a saber qué nombre nos han puesto en la espalda nuestros compañeros de oficio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-87596456190906691672013-01-07T07:38:00.001-08:002013-01-07T07:42:26.538-08:00JAMES SALTER, ESE DON DE TRANSFORMAR LA VIDA EN ARTE<br />
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<b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial;">La nueva novela de uno
de los secretos de la ficción estadounidense; espantar el aburrimiento con el
sitio Open Culture; y un nuevo cuaderno para arrancar el año.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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mundo –algo como una sociedad secreta cuyos miembros no se conocen entre ellos–
tienen el 2 de abril de este nuevo año marcado en sus calendarios. Es la fecha
en que sale a la venta la nueva novela de James Salter,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/160043/all-that-is-by-james-salter" target="_blank" title="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/160043/all-that-is-by-james-salter"><strong><span lang="ES" style="background-color: #f5f4ef; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #e85127; font-family: Georgia;">All that is</span></strong></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #f5f4ef; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f5f4ef; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">. John Irving, que ya la leyó, dijo que le hubiera
gustado a Shakespeare. Salter tiene 87 años. La última vez que publicó una
novela fue en 1979. Esta nueva novela es su sexta. Además ha publicado dos
colecciones de cuentos y un libro de memorias. Pero estas enumeraciones no
significan nada. Son los datos brutos de una primera aproximación. Aunque
escribió poco, para sus devotos nunca dio un paso en falso y su obra es casi
perfecta. Su prosa es la envidia de centenares de autores mucho más reconocidos
y prolíficos que él. Si no conocen a Salter ahora es el momento para leerlo. No
pierdan un segundo más. Hay algo mágico en el hecho de leer a un gran autor
mientras él aún vive. Poder entrar en el trance de sus libros y pensar, a la
vez, que la persona que escribió lo que uno está leyendo ahora mismo respira y
existe en este mundo. Salter es un sensualista y un bon vivant , pero también
es un hombre de actos heroicos y vivencias glamorosas. Se recibió en la
academia militar de West Point y fue piloto de combate en <st1:personname productid="la Guerra" w:st="on">la Guerra</st1:personname> de Corea. (Fue
guionista de Hollywood y amigo de Robert Redford). A los treinta y dos años, con
una esposa y dos hijos, dejó su carrera en la fuerza aérea para escribir.
“Decidí escribir o perecer. Era como comenzar la vida de cero”, cuenta en un
notable documental titulado Meet James Salter (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGKDKVQKMd0" target="_blank" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGKDKVQKMd0"><span lang="ES" style="background-color: #f5f4ef; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #e85127; font-family: Georgia;">que se encuentra en YouTube</span></a></span><span style="background-color: #f5f4ef; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">). Dice: “Cuando despegas completamente sólo esa primera
vez es inolvidable. De repente sientes que tienes un par de alas y que puedes
escribir algo glorioso”. Cuando uno lee a Salter la vida se convierte en algo
más vívido. Es casi como el efecto de una droga. Cosas ignoradas como la
comida, la luz y la ropa, se convierten en sustancias milagrosas. Cosas
desgastadas como el sexo, los viajes o el hecho de conducir un auto se
transforman en actos de infinita ternura y asombro. No he contado las cosas
sobre las que escribe Salter o cómo lo hace. Sólo diré que Salter es uno de
esos poquísimos escritores que te cambian la vida. Sus novelas nos convencen de
que la vida es un milagro y que no hay tiempo que perder.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-73104851764488300012013-01-07T07:37:00.001-08:002013-01-07T07:37:14.061-08:00DE CÓMO LOS LIBROS INFLUYEN EN NUESTRAS VACACIONES<br />
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<span lang="ES-AR">DE CÓMO LOS LIBROS INFLUYEN EN NUESTRAS
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<span lang="ES-AR">Ahora que el mundo no colapsó como predijeron
algunos intérpretes de las profecías mayas, o digamos que no colapsó todo junto
y para siempre, sino que se siguen produciendo pequeños colapsos cotidianos, es
hora de pensar en qué universo literario vamos a sumergir nuestra cabeza en
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<span lang="ES-AR">Porque aunque una tiende a manotear el último
libro que compramos, el del autor que fue bendecido por la crítica o los gordos
volúmenes de literatura erótica que tienen contentos a tantos novios y maridos,
hay que recordar que esa elección puede influir en cómo estará nuestro ánimo en
esos días de descanso, en los que siempre –calculamos con optimismo– vamos a
dedicarle muchas horas a la lectura.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Porque hay libros que te dejan con la sensación
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libros que destilan un sabor amargo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brasil. Todo estaba perfecto: la playa, el clima, la compañía. Pero no puedo
pensar en ese hotel sin revivir la sensación de opresión que me dejó la novela
que estaba leyendo: un caso de relaciones sombrías, de personajes sórdidos y
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lindas de mi infancia la pasé con mis padres y hermanos en un pueblito de
Córdoba, donde no había casi nada que pudiera divertir a una chica: una
iglesia, un almacén de ramos generales –de la familia de Dalmacio Vélez
Sarsfield, el redactor del Código Civil- y unas ruinas jesuíticas. Sin embargo,
todas las noches mi papá tomaba un viejo libro y nos leía un cuento de <b>Las mil
y una noches</b>. No sé si se trataba de una versión infantil o podaba las escenas
entre el sultán y Scherezade, pero los personajes de esos cuentos fueron los
mejores amigos de viaje que puedo recordar. El pueblo, teñido de sepia y
detenido en el tiempo, no tenía nada fantástico, según comprobé años después.
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<span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Un interesante modo terapéutico está haciendo
furor en las disciplinas psico-educativas en Argentina. Se llama<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Zooterapia y es una técnica que
incluye en el tratamiento, la asistencia de animales.</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Aunque su uso es prehistórico, esta
tendencia está aumentando a la hora de estimular a aquellas personas con
capacidades diferentes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Luciano, de unos pocos
años, es uno de los tantos niños que padecen la patología del autismo. Como
todas las mañanas, Boxler, un labrador negro de corazón gigante, se le acerca y
trata de inquietarlo. Como en cada uno de sus intentos por perturbar la
tranquilidad del pequeño, Boxler le acerca varios juguetes que saca de una
enorme caja. En otro intento, le trae un trozo de correa, se la coloca en la
mano y él instintivamente sujeta uno de los extremos. Hasta ese instante, el
chico no había tomado conciencia de la presencia del canino. Ahí, Boxler
comienza a tirar, provocando una reacción en el chico, quien jugando lo mira a
los ojos. En ese tironeo, una increíble evolución se generó en la terapia. El
tratamiento ya estaba dando sus frutos. </span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Un poco de historia</span></b><span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">El trabajo con animales domésticos data del
año 1792, en Inglaterra, cuando el médico William Tuke, comienza a emplear
perros para mejorar las deplorables condiciones en las que se vivían en los
manicomios.</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Consideró aplicar
menos castigos y azotes y sí basar los tratamientos en la dependencia que puede
resultarle a un hombre una mascota. Con el tiempo, su pensamiento vanguardista,
daba los primeros frutos al comprobar los resultados positivos que surgían de
tal relación. La soledad mermaba, al igual que la locura y las relaciones
pacientes animales, humanizaban los tratamientos. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ya en 1944, la Cruz Roja de Nueva York utilizó
perros en la rehabilitación de ex combatientes. Mundialmente, existen programas
donde se utilizan perros con pacientes internados o ambulatorios.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Éstos aumentan los niveles de
autoestima, lo cual colabora en la recuperación de los mismos.</span></b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">"El hombre tiene un gran poder de habla,
pero la mayor parte de lo que dice es vano y engañoso. Los animales apenas
pueden hablar, pero lo poco que dicen es útil y veraz, y es mejor una cosa
pequeña y cierta que una gran falsedad."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Leonardo Da
Vinci. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">La Zooterapia es, de esta manera,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">una técnica que se basa en la
estimulación para favorecer tanto el diagnóstico correcto como el aprendizaje y
la adaptación de estos pacientes con capacidades diferentes.</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>El estímulo está dado por animales, en
su mayoría perros, gatos, caballos y delfines. En estas prácticas, las mascotas
desempeñan un papel fundamental en la apertura de la persona hacia nuevas
actividades, funcionando como un poderoso estímulo. En mayor medida, los que
reciben estos tipos de tratamientos son los chicos de hasta 21 años. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">"Bajo este tipo de terapias, los
pacientes reciben una gran motivación e influencia externa gracias a los
movimientos de los mismos animales. Generando una recuperación más eficiente en
las afecciones neurológicas o traumatológicas. También sucede que al ser
animales preparados para este tipo de terapias, las relaciones se vuelven
fuertes vínculos de estimulación. Existe infinidad de pacientes que comienzan a
reconocerse a partir de los animales que tienen en las sesiones o que entienden
las partes de sus propios cuerpos, señalándolas primero en sus
"amigos" caballos",<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">explica uno de los
doctores que dirige la Fundación Científica Argentina Establo
Terapéutico. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Centrándose un poco más en los caninos a la
hora de hacer este tipo de terapias, afirma la <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><a href="http://buscar.lanacion.com.ar/Amelia%20Lorena" target="_blank">Licenciada
Amelia Lorena:</a></span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">"El perro ya por ser perro
tiene patrones de conductas determinados que permiten entender lo que necesita
cada paciente en su tratamiento. El perro al adaptarse al paciente, nos muestra
por dónde abordarlo."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i>Vale
decir, el perro responderá al estimulo recibido, sea indiferencia o
interacción. Si el paciente quiere jugar, será el primero en jugar, si recibe
indiferencia, se quedará a su lado a la espera de alguna reacción. Otro paso
también es cuando el animal busca la motivación. Y una vez entendida esta
motivación, el tratamiento estará dando sus frutos. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">En cuanto a los tratamientos,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">todo trabajo con los pacientes
tiene un máximo de dos años,</span></b> el cual una vez terminado, siguen bajo
controles, especialmente en el caso de los niños que llegan a la adolescencia,
donde por lo general se deben hacer algunos ajustes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">En Argentina estas prácticas se realizan por
profesionales idóneos que coordinan estos programas. Uno de las instituciones
más prestigiosas es el Hospital Pedro Elizalde, que bajo la supervisión de los
psicólogos Amelia Lorena y José Pose, atienden a niños y adolescentes de hasta
veinte años con trastornos generalizados del desarrollo, entre los que se
encuentran<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><a href="http://www.lanacion.com.ar/166536" target="_blank">el
autismo</a></span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>o el
retraso mental. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Otro lugar donde se puede consultar es<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">El refugio de mi paz,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i>donde funciona desde
algunos años una asociación dedicada a la canoterapia, una rama definida de la
Zooterapia, que utiliza a ejemplares caninos para mejorar la salud psicosocial
de pacientes de distintas edades y categorías. Allí, diversa<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">variedad de perros adiestrados
en diferentes modalidades terapéuticas, trabajan con personas epilépticas,
estimulando y avisando con una anticipación de diez o menos minutos si va a
sobrevenir un ataque.</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>También
lo hacen con pacientes con psicosis, autismo, síndrome de<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Rett,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i>de<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">West,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i>de<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Angelman,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i>de<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Asperger,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i>distrofia muscular,
parálisis cerebral y mielomeningocele. Otros se especializan en
insulinodependientes, en tracción de sillas de ruedas y oncología. El grupo
está conformado por un fisioterapeuta, una fonoaudióloga, un profesor de educación
física, una cuidadora de perros y dos profesionales de carrera
hospitalaria. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #19202a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ludmila, una niña de tan sólo 16 años, tiene
diagnosticado psicosis. No habla y siempre se aleja de todos. De su tratamiento
participó Delfina, una labradora que todas las mañanas la iba a buscar y la
acercaba al grupo, tomándola de la mano suavemente con su boca. Cada vez que
Ludmila se fijaba en un punto, Delfina le llenaba la cara de lengüetazos o
comenzaba a apretarle la mano delicadamente y sin lastimarla.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Durante una caminata por el
parque, se pudo observar que Ludmila le hablaba despacito como contándole
cosas.</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>La terapia
progresó y se basó en las cosas que Ludmila le contaba a su amiga
Delfina. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR">MARIO VARGAS LLOSA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR">Escritor Peruano (1936)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">“Aprender a leer es lo más importante que me ha
pasado en el vida".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">“Nada enriquece tanto los sentidos, la
sensibilidad, los deseos humanos, como la lectura. Estoy completamente
convencido de que una persona que lee, y que lee bien, disfruta muchísimo mejor
de la vida, aunque también es una persona que tiene más problemas frente al
mundo”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">“La incertidumbre es una margarita cuyos
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<span lang="ES-AR">“Cuando la realidad se vuelve irresistible, la
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<span lang="ES-AR">"Se escribe para llenar vacíos, para
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<span lang="ES-AR">“Depende de nosotros que la buena literatura
siga existiendo, por el goce incomparable que produce, y por lo fundamental que
es si queremos tener un futuro en libertad”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — At a campaign stop in Rockford,
Ill., not long ago, </span><a href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/candidates/mitt-romney?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Mitt Romney."><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mitt Romney</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
sought to convey his feelings for his wife, Ann. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Smitten,” he said.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Not merely in love. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">“Yeah, smitten,” he said. “Mitt was smitten.” </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">It was a classic Mittism, as friends and advisers call the verbal quirks
of the Republican presidential candidate. In Romneyspeak, passengers do not get
off airplanes, they “disembark.” People do not laugh, they “guffaw.” Criminals
do not go to jail, they land in the “big house.” Insults are not hurled,
“brickbats” are. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">As he seeks the office of commander in chief, Mr. Romney can sometimes
seem like an editor in chief, employing a language all his own. It is polite,
formal and at times anachronistic, linguistically setting apart a man who
frequently struggles to sell himself to the American electorate. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">It is most pronounced when he is on the stump and off the cuff, not on
the stuffy and rehearsed debate stage. But Mr. Romney offered voters a dose of
it during his face-off with President Obama last week, when he coined the
infelicitous phrase “binders full of women.” </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Mr. Romney’s unique style of speaking has distinguished him throughout
his career, influencing the word choices of those who work with and especially
for him. Should he reach the White House, friends and advisers concede, the
trait could be a defining feature of his public image, as memorable as Lyndon
B. Johnson’s foul-mouthed utterances or the first President Bush’s tortured
syntax. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Mr. Romney, 65, has spent four decades inside the corridors of high
finance and state politics, where indecorous diction and vulgarisms abound. But
he has emerged as if in a rhetorical time capsule from a well-mannered era of
soda fountains and AMC Ramblers, someone whose idea of swearing is to let loose
with the phrase “H-E-double hockey sticks.” </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">“He actually said that,” recalled Thomas Finneran, the speaker of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives when Mr. Romney was governor. “As in, go
to ‘H-E-double hockey sticks.’ I would think to myself, ‘Who talks like
that?’ </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Mr. Romney, quite proudly. In fact, he seems puzzled by the fascination
with something as instinctive (and immutable) as how he talks, as if somebody
were asking how he breathes. “It’s like someone who speaks with an accent,” he
said in an interview. “You don’t hear the accent.” </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">His Mormon faith frowns on salty language, and so does he. A man of
relentless self-discipline, he made clear to lawmakers in Boston and colleagues
in business that even in matters of vocabulary, he “held himself to a high
standard of behavior,” said Geoffrey Rehnert, a former executive at Bain
Capital, the firm Mr. Romney started in the 1980s. Mr. Romney’s father, George,
whom he idolized, shared the same style of refined and restrained speech. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Those around him are so accustomed to his verbal tics that they describe
them in shorthand. “Old-timey,” said one aide. “His 1950s language,” explained
another. “The Gomer Pyle routine,” said a third. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Asked about his boss’s word preferences, Eric Fehrnstrom, a veteran
Romney adviser, responded knowingly: “You mean like ‘gosh, golly, darn’?” </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">For Democratic strategists, Mr. Romney’s throwback vocabulary feeds into
their portrayal of a man ill-equipped for the mores and challenges of the
modern age. David Axelrod, a top adviser for an Obama campaign that has adopted
“Forward” as its slogan, once quipped that Mr. Romney “must watch ‘Mad
Men,’ ” the hit television show set in Manhattan in the 1960s, “and think
it’s the evening news.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">His exclamations can sound jarring to the contemporary ear — or
charming, depending on whom you ask. Midway into a critique of Mr. Obama’s
economic policies a few months ago, Mr. Romney declared: “They’ve scared the
dickens out of banks,” he said. “They’ve scared the dickens out of insurance
companies.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He declared, “To heck with it!” while urging reporters
to use their fingers to dig into a box of pastries he was passing around on a
plane. “Darn good question,” he replied to a voter in Kalamazoo, Mich., who
asked how he would work with Congress if elected. (His wife also got the “darn”
treatment in Michigan, when he enthused, “Gosh, darn, she is amazing!”) </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Thank
heavens” is another favorite.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">For people used to peppering their speech with four-letter words, time
with Mr. Romney can prove an exercise in self-control. A half-dozen people recalled
the precise moment when they swore — almost always accidentally — in his
presence. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">When Robert Travaglini, then the Democratic president of the
Massachusetts State Senate, would curse in front of Mr. Romney, the governor
would frown and interject, “Well, I wouldn’t choose that diction,” Mr.
Travaglini recalled. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Mr. Rehnert, the former Bain executive, was mortified when a potential
client he took into Mr. Romney’s office promptly dropped a string of
profanities. “Mitt wanted to know what cats and dogs I was dragging in here,”
Mr. Rehnert said. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">His cussing colleagues said Mr. Romney took pains not to judge them
publicly. “He did not impose his language preferences on us,” Mr. Finneran
said. “But I wonder if we became a little bit more restrained because we knew
this about him.” </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Mr. Travaglini recalled lawmakers’ discussing how Mr. Romney “should be
more in tune with the vernacular of the day and express himself more
passionately.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">“But,” he added, “that’s not who he is.” </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Mr. Romney does have his own distinctly G-rated arsenal of angry
expressions — “Good grief,” “flippin’,” “good heavens” and even the occasional
“crap.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Perhaps the most intriguing of these is “grunt.” Most people just grunt.
Mr. Romney, however, talks about grunting. “Grunt” he says, onomatopoetically,
when annoyed with a last-minute change in his campaign schedule. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Many of Mr. Romney’s verbal habits can sound like those of a
hyper-literate graduate student who never left school. (In college, he majored
in English.) He favors the gentlemanly qualifier “if you will,” which he
invoked three times during a recent speech. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">On how to reduce the debt: “You have to start accumulating, if you will,
reserves.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">On speaking to a group of soldiers: “The cadets were all lined up and
sitting at attention, if you will.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">On his business background: “I’ve had the experience of working in the
real world, if you will.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">In interviews, voters expressed an equal measure of admiration for and
curiosity about his quaint dialect, which many described as a conspicuous break
from the normally harsh tone of politicians. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">“It’s a wonderful change,” said Irene Sperling, a retiree from
Allentown, Pa. “He’s a gentleman.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Wendy Tonn, 63, a Romney supporter who splits her time between Michigan
and Florida, said she found comfort in his vocabulary, comparing it to the
simple innocence of “Leave It to Beaver.” “We are of that era, and we’d like to
be returned to that kind of era,” she said. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Even Dennis Miller, the comedian, has weighed in, suggesting that after
four years of having a “hipster president” in the White House, Americans craved
a “gosh president.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">A few acquaintances have tried to drag him linguistically into the 21st
century. Mr. Finneran, an admitted serial curser, said that after years of
working closely with Mr. Romney, he began to fantasize about provoking him to
utter a particularly crude word. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">“It got to the point where I started to think that my greatest
achievement of all time would be if I somehow or other got him to say the
word,” he said. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Once, Mr. Romney seemed on the cusp of fulfilling that wish during a
heated discussion. But he caught himself. “And I thought, ‘Oh, God, my closest
moment ever,’ ” Mr. Finneran said. “But it’s not going to happen.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Fuente:
http://www.nytimes.com)</span></div>
Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-40560463964059946952012-10-15T05:06:00.002-07:002012-10-15T05:06:25.161-07:00DECÁLOGO DEL TRADUCTOR<br />
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1- Los traductores NO son diccionarios. Por tanto,
no conocen todas las palabras de un idioma ni son unos incompetentes por no
saber cómo se dice en inglés un término técnico de aeronáutica o de física
cuántica.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2- Los traductores NO suelen ser bilingües ni
trilingües. Empresas y alumnos, cambiad el chip. Si queréis que las clases de
inglés os las dé un nativo porque, aunque sea camionero, seguro que controla de
didáctica más que un español, allá vosotros.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3- ¿Y tú qué libros traduces? NO traduzco libros.
[Cara de indignación de quien formuló la pregunta]. Soy más de software,
contratos, títulos universitarios, páginas web, menús de restaurantes, manuales
de móviles, videojuegos, folletos turísticos...<o:p></o:p></div>
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4- Un traductor NO es un ama de casa, aunque
muchos nos ocupemos también de no vivir en pocilgas, comer sano o poner
lavadoras. Cuidado con el poder de las preposiciones: trabajamos desde casa y,
circunstancialmente, en ella. Pero, en muchos casos, podríamos hacerlo con un
equipo portátil desde la playa, un parque, el bar de la esquina o un congreso.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5- Los traductores NO son máquinas. Igual que les
ocurre a los programadores, diseñadores o escritores, se cansan si pasan ocho
horas delante de un ordenador. Además, les suele gustar descansar el fin de
semana y, si tienen que trabajar por algún motivo, es lógico que pidan un
precio más alto. Ya que lo hacen los cerrajeros, subámonos al carro.<o:p></o:p></div>
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6- Un traductor NO es tu prima la que chapurrea
alemán con ayuda de Google Translate, Linguee y Wordreference (esto ya para
primas que se las dan de profesionales); tampoco tu amigo cuya capacidad de
hablar inglés mejora con dos copas ni ese que pone en su currículum que tiene
nivel medio de cinco idiomas. <o:p></o:p></div>
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7- Los traductores NO trabajan por amor al arte ni
son robots sin corazón ni mean colonia. Comen, beben, leen, se ilusionan,
viajan, tienen familia y días malos, discuten y cometen errores como la gente
normal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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8-Un traductor que sepa solo un idioma además de
su lengua materna NO es un bicho raro. De hecho, la mayoría solemos trabajar
con uno o dos pares de idiomas. Cuánto daño ha hecho la políglota Anne
Igartiburu (y las capas de Drácula de Ramón García, todo sea dicho).<o:p></o:p></div>
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9- Un traductor NO es (necesariamente)
intérprete y este, a su vez, no es (necesariamente) actor de cine y teatro.
Parece que a muchos les cuesta entender esta asociación de ideas. Y sí, también
nos ha hecho un flaco favor Nicole Kidman.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #121212; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES;">10- La última la elegís vosotros, que no quiero que esta entrada se quede
en la carpeta de Borradores eternamente.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Fuente: <span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://thesecondprize.blogspot.com.ar/"><span lang="ES">http://thesecondprize.blogspot.com.ar</span></a></span>)<o:p></o:p></div>
Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-54870722366756781872012-10-08T05:29:00.001-07:002012-10-08T05:29:57.063-07:00Frases: Lewis Carroll<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="ES-AR"><b>LEWIS CARROLL<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><b>1832-1898<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"><b>ESCRITOR BRITÁNICO</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Empieza por el principio, y continúa hasta
llegar al final, allí te detienes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Qué pobre memoria, aquella que sólo funciona
hacia atrás.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Si cada cual se ocupara de lo suyo, el mundo
daría las vueltas más deprisa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Uno es tan paciente consigo mismo que nunca se
irrita con la propia estupidez.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Si así fue, así pudo ser; si así fuera, así podría ser; pero como no es, no es. Eso es lógica.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Todo tiene moral, si la encuentras.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Si no sabes adónde vas, cualquier camino sirve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">La cortesía es pensar lo que dices. Ahorra
mucho tiempo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">En ocasiones, he creído hasta seis cosas
imposibles antes de desayunar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">No puedo volver al día de ayer. Porque ayer yo
era una persona diferente.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Alguien con intelecto está perdido, a no ser
que posea la energía del carácter. Cuando tenemos la lámpara de Diógenes,
también debemos contar con eso.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">La gente puede dudar de lo que dices, pero
creerá en lo que hagas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Él era parte de mi sueño, es cierto, pero yo
era parte del suyo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Sólo los animales más inteligentes y activos
son capaces de aburrirse. Un tema para una gran poesía sería el aburrimiento de
Dios en el séptimo día de la creación.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">Puedes llegar a cualquier parte, siempre que
andes lo suficiente.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR">¿Quién soy yo en este mundo? Ah, ése es el gran
acertijo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-25905457044192813832012-07-26T07:39:00.002-07:002012-07-26T07:39:33.710-07:00Writing tips<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How to improve
writing<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1.
Use fewer nouns and more verbs<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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can only be a success through operational staff involvement such as increased
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Operation <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:place></st1:city>
will succeed only if operational staff patrol public areas, keep their eyes
open and report anything unusual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Abstract nouns
such as 'involvement', 'reporting' and 'visibility' don't describe specific
things, so they leave the reader with only a vague idea as to the meaning of
the sentence. Replacing abstract nouns with verbs means readers, i.e. the
staff, have a clearer idea what they should do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt;">2. Remove jargon<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">Before</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">After</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Understanding how to develop strategic innovation competence is a
critical success factor for companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Companies need to know how to innovate in order to succeed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There's not
enough difference between 'develop strategic innovation competence' and
'innovate' to justify using four words rather than one. We turned the sentence
round, replacing the jargony phrases with simple verbs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt;">3. Be active not passive<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">Before</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">After</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A mistake was made in calculating your bill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We made a mistake in calculating your bill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The passive
voice is typically used by writers to avoid responsibility or blame. Whether used
deliberately or not, it tends to be less informative than the active voice
because it allows the writer to leave out a vital bit of information: who or
what did it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt;">4. Punctuate properly<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">Before</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">After</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I am sorry for the poor response you received when you first
complained, please be assured your concerns have been logged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I am sorry for the poor response you received when you first
complained. </span><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Please be assured your concerns have been logged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The comma is too
weak a punctuation mark in this case. The first statement makes sense on its
own, in other words it is a sentence. So using a full stop, to produce two
sentences rather than one, makes the ideas easier for the reader to take in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt;">5. Avoid dangling modifiers<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">Before</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">After</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Walking along the cliffs, the waves were crashing against the rocks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Walking along the cliffs, I saw the waves crashing against the rocks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The modifier,
the phrase before the comma, leads the reader to expect the subject of the
sentence to follow, but it wasn't the waves who were walking; it was the
writer. It's fairly obvious what the original means, but the reader shouldn't
have to work to figure it out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt;">6. Build a clean sentence<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">Before</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">After</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Lucozade had a spontaneous, strong and clear image, the brand however
was increasingly seen as being for sickness only, for children only, for
occasional use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Although Lucozade had a strong image, it was seen primarily as a tonic
for treating sick children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When writers try
to squeeze too many ideas into a sentence - without thinking them through - the
construction goes awry and the point is obscured. We encourage people to plan
their writing and construct sentences that get their message across clearly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.5pt;">7. Read it through<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">Before</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">After</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In 1851, almost one-tenth of the population lived in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city> and its suburbs. By 1911, the rest of
the country was occupied by only four-fifths of the population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Between 1851 and 1911 the proportion of the French population living
in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city> and
its suburbs doubled from 10% to 20%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The original is
hard enough to understand because the focus, that is the subject of the
sentence, changes from '<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city>'
in the first sentence to 'the rest of the country' in the second. It is even
harder because it uses different fractions that require effort to compare. We
used percentages instead, to make the point more clearly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For more tips on writing, have a look at the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;"><a href="http://www.claritywritingexperts.com/blog/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Clarity blog</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #454f53; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-61855466995829733462012-06-18T07:42:00.004-07:002012-06-18T07:43:17.397-07:00STRONG WORDS<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">As words die out, we're more in danger of losing
'decent', 'duty' and 'punctuation' than 'dirty', 'stick' and 'guts'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Fascinating stuff from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Reading</st1:placename></st1:place>, which<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/26/language-evolution-words-extinction-dirty"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #005689;">has announced</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"> that our oldest words have been in existence for an awfully long time,
yet that "50% of the words we use today would be unrecognisable to our
ancestors living 2500 years ago".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.evolution.reading.ac.uk/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #005689;">Mark Pagel</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">,
who is perhaps tellingly a professor of evolutionary<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/biology" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Biology"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #005689;">biology</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">
and not of linguistics, added that "if a time-traveller came to us, and
told us he wanted to go back to that period, we could arm him with the
appropriate phrase book, and hopefully keep him out of trouble".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">This statement, though in a sense unfalsifiable, does beg a few
questions, but let's not worry about them just now. The more interesting item
in the story is that, thanks to the power of a hugely brainy and fast
supercomputer called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.rdg.ac.uk/thamesblue/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #005689;">ThamesBlue</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">,
the boffins now think they can tell us which words are going to be dying out
soon. It makes interesting reading. Apparently, soon to be of historical
interest only are words such as "dirty", "stick",
"guts", "wipe", "stab", "turn" and
"push".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Now, I am afraid I have not had the time or opportunity to consult the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.oed.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #005689;">complete OED</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">, which can tell us
almost exactly how long these words, and indeed many others, have been around,
but this seems like a counter-intuitive list, to put it mildly. Never mind that
the list looks suspiciously like one that might be offered by a (slightly
depraved) competition setter, asking us to construct a story using those words.
They all have the feel of words that not only have been around for a long
while, but suggest that they are very useful at what they do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Stabbing, for
instance, does not look as though it is going out of fashion, and if you can
find a better word to describe plunging a knife into someone than
"stab" then I take my hat off to you. And as for describing what
spills out of you when you are stabbed, "guts" has it over
"intestines" any day of the week. My own theory is that ThamesBlue
has actually become self-aware, and, possibly as a result of indignation at
being given a stupid name with a capital letter in the middle of it, has
allowed its thoughts to turn in a sinister and vengeful direction. This list is
simply its stream of consciousness, or perhaps a subtle warning to its
operators not to push their luck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Anyway, we can
see in front of us, without a computer, which words are disappearing.
"Your", "great" and "tomorrow" have all gone;
they are now "<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">ur</st1:place></st1:city>",
"gr8", and "tomoz". (Actually, I rather like
"tomoz".) But I simply can't see how "dirty" will go while
there is still the need for a word to describe the notion of something being in
some sense unclean. Are we, in the not-too-distant future, going to start
seeing "I wish my wife was as sniblig as this van" as an amusing
graffito traced on the back of a dusty Transit? I think not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">No, the words
that are on the way out are ones that refer to concepts which are becoming
increasingly outmoded, including "integrity",
"selfishness", "duty", "punctuation", and
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Un recorrido por las tapas de revistas más controvertidas.Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-33789624316162333622012-05-11T07:42:00.002-07:002012-05-11T07:42:31.664-07:00Infoxicación<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 26.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Infoxicación:
mejor prevenir que curar<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Calibri;">Abres los ojos y, antes de salir de la cama, tu primer impulso
es<strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">comprobar el correo</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>desde tu smartphone. Te sientas
delante del ordenador y te encuentras con<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">300
artículos nuevos</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>en
tus feeds. Mientras trabajas o disfrutas de tu tiempo libre, sientes la<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">necesidad
imperante de leer tu timeline en Twitter</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>para compartir la última noticia o
aquello que, realmente,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">no estás haciendo</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ahora
mismo. Por la noche, vuelves a a la cama, no sin antes comprobar el correo<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">por
si acaso</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(aunque hace
10 minutos que has apagado el ordenador) o mirar las<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">últimas
fotos subidas a Instagram</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Calibri;">¿Os suena de algo? Si la respuesta es que no,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">enhorabuena</span></strong>:
(todavía)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">no habéis sido<a href="http://www.fundeu.es/recomendaciones-I-infoxicacion-neologismo-adecuado-en-espanol-1279.html" target="_blank" title="Infoxicación (Fundeu)"><span style="color: #072c53;">infoxicados</span></a></span></strong>.
Si os sentís mínimamente identificados, os propongo algunas soluciones para
mejorar los síntomas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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más<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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todas ellas,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">¿cuántas leéis, realmente?</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Apuesto lo que sea a que una gran
parte está inactiva o, simplemente, ni nos molestamos en leer más allá del
titular. Si usáis<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.es/reader" target="_blank" title="Google Reader"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #072c53; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Google Reader</span></a> para gestionar vuestros RSS, os
recomiendo que deis un paseo por la pestaña de «Suscripciones», escondida bajo
«Ajustes».<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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e-mail.</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Si sois más asiduos a las
suscripciones por e-mail, os propongo la misma solución:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">date
de baja de todo aquello que no leas</span></strong>. Menuda obviedad, ¿no?
Pero, si nos paramos a pensar:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">¿a cuántas cosas estáis suscritos solo para eliminarlas cuando
aparecen en vuestra bandeja de entrada?</span></strong> A eso me refiero.
La buena noticia es que no cuesta tanto: la mayoría de estas suscripciones
cuentan con un link para darse de baja (normalmente en letra pequeña, escondido
al final del e-mail). ¡Clic y listo!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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contenido<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Calibri;">El problema no está solo en el correo. De hecho, gran parte del
problema se encuentra fuera de él. Sin embargo,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">una
gestión correcta ayudará a preservar (o mejorar) nuestra salud mental</span></strong>.
Las<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">listas de usuarios en Twitter</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>y los<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">filtros
de Gmail</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>son una
buena forma de empezar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Calibri;">Si no queréis ser tan drásticos con vuestras suscripciones (es
comprensible, a mí también me cuesta desprenderme de mi dosis diaria de
información) y usáis Gmail, os propongo algo alternativo:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">¡filtros!</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Reconozco ser la primera en mirar el
correo varias veces por hora, pero, la verdad,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">no
suele ser tan urgente y tan importante como para estar pendiente con tanta
asiduidad</span></strong>. Con los filtros de Gmail, podemos configurar nuestro
correo para que ciertos elementos no vayan directamente a la bandeja de
entrada, evitando así posibles distracciones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Calibri;">¿Cómo? Muy sencillo: no os llevará más de cinco
minutos. Aquí<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"><a href="http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=118708" target="_blank" title="Cómo utilizar las etiquetas"><span style="color: #072c53;">tenéis
un par de</span></a><a href="https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=6579" target="_blank" title="Cómo usar filtros"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #072c53; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span><span style="color: #072c53;">tutoriales de Google</span></a></span></strong>. Algunas
sugerencias:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Listas de correo</span></strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">: si estáis suscritos a listas de correo, sabréis que el ritmo
de mensajes puede ser algo abrumador. Por ello, os recomiendo crear una Etiqueta
asociada a cada una de estas listas, así como un Filtro que se encargue
automáticamente de etiquetar estos e-mails y trasladarlos fuera de la vista
principal de <st1:personname productid="la Bandeja" w:st="on">la Bandeja</st1:personname>
de entrada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Leer más tarde</span></strong><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Calibri;">: también podéis usar la combinación adecuada de Filtros/Etiquetas
para mandar a vuestro correo todos los artículos o tweets que queráis leer más
tarde (si es que no usáis otra alternativa, como<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.instapaper.com/" target="_blank" title="Instapaper"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #072c53; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Instapaper</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>o<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.readitlaterlist.com/" target="_blank" title="Read it Later"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #072c53; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Read it Later</span></a>). <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Déjalo
para más tarde<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Calibri;">Existen muchos servicios dedicados a la<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">gestión
y «dosificación» de contenido</span></strong>. No te sientas mal por salir de
casa, están ahí para ponerte al día cuando vuelvas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; line-height: 150%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.news.me/" target="_blank" title="News.me"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #072c53; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">News.me</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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tengo invitaciones disponibles)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">A
grandes males…<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Calibri;">Si no hay manera de que te concentres, existen aplicaciones o
complementos para navegadores dedicados a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">bloquear ciertas páginas web de forma temporal</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; line-height: 150%; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/" target="_blank" title="SelfControl"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #072c53; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">SelfControl</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #072c53; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></a>(Mac)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; line-height: 150%; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hclgegipaehbigmbhdpfapmjadbaldib" target="_blank" title="Website Blocker"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #072c53; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Website Blocker</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Google
Chrome)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<br /></div>Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-24810410221507394622012-05-11T07:36:00.002-07:002012-05-11T07:36:34.316-07:00Friday Joke<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #292727; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Two people go into a room. Each
has a bottle of bourbon.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #292727; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They sit at leisure, drinking and
talking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #292727; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When the whiskey has been
consumed, one of them stands up and walks out of the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #292727; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The other tries to guess who
left. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Copyright © 2012,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #003344; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Baltimore Sun</span></b></a></span>Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-73236213640630365662012-05-09T11:30:00.000-07:002012-05-09T11:30:39.784-07:00Body Language for Job Interviews<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">12
Facts About Body Language You Should Know Before Your Next Job Interview<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Most of us
aren't aware of our body language, especially when we're in a stressful
situation — but interviewers are trained to read it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Karl Rozemeyer at </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/theladderscom"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">TheLadders</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> says in a </span><a href="https://cdn.theladders.net/static/images/editorial/beating_interview_stage_fright_090819.pdf"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d637d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">report</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> that involuntary body
language can be compared to stage fright for an actor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To see how actors effectively communicate with their
bodies, Rozemeyer spoke to </span><a href="http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=75131"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d637d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">John Treacy Egan</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, a Broadway
actor, and </span><a href="http://jodiebentley.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d637d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Jodie Bentley</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, an acting
coach. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I think it is important to have body awareness before you go into
an interview,” Bentley said. "There are many actions and habits that we
should consider doing or avoid doing to tell the right story during the
interview setting."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">TheLadders gave us permission to share
these 12 body tricks jobseekers should master before stepping into the
interviewing room. All of the photos are modeled by </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/business-insider"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Business Insider</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> staffers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. Feel good
about your wardrobe and wear clothes that 'show you in your best lighting'<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “I really think that the
clothes that you wear impact who you are, and if you wear something
that makes you feel fabulous, your body language is going to be so
much more comfortable in the moment," Bentley said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Hold onto a
talisman to comfort yourself<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Wear a piece of jewelry or a scarf or something that has meaning to you
and can ground you in the moment. If I get nervous, sometimes I will look at my
wedding ring and think of my husband who supports me, and I realize I should be
doing this and I am on the right path."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"When we get nervous, we feel ourselves being removed from our
bodies slightly. I think that having that talisman is a great way just to keep
us grounded and present in the moment.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Place your feet on the
floor<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Keep both of your feet on the ground and try not to cross your legs,
which Egan said gives off signs that you're unsure of yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. Sit still
or you'll come off as a nervous person<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “Nervous energy isn’t good,” Bentley said.
“And so a lot of people cross their legs and shake their legs over<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and over again. Not that we need to
sit with ankles crossed and be stiff.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. Place your
hands on your knees<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “If you have to make a point,”
Egan said, “you can use your hands.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">However, try not to speak with your hands, so keep them on your knees so
that you'll be aware of them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. Sit a bit
forward to show that you're interested and serious about the interview<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “You don’t want to sit back,”
Egan said. “Leaning backwards can leave the impression that you are overly
relaxed and can make you look untidy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. Folding
your arms will make you seem unfriendly<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “I think that is a bad habit that a lot of
people fall into. It definitely closes you off (from the interviewer). Not a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>lot of actors do it,” Bentley said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">8. Playing
with your hair or cracking your knuckles can be extremely distracting to your
interviewer<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “I have big, red, curly hair, and
I used to twirl my curls when I got nervous,” Bentley said. “It is about really
being honest with yourself and saying to yourself: ‘What are my habits when I
get nervous, and how can I eliminate them?’ </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">9. Putting your
hands in your pockets makes you look 'messy'<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “If you are standing at all in
the interview, then hands in the pockets are a big no-no. That just looks so
clumsy and messy,” Bentley said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Instead, Egan advised to "let your hands drop to your side, and talk.
When you need to use your hands, engage them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10. Don't invade the
interviewer's space and keep your hands and body parts on your side of the desk<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “Some people just get too close
for comfort,” Bentley said. “They think that they want to make a connection, so
they get closer. Really knowing that boundary is really important.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">11. Use props to help you
look more comfortable<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “If you need a prop like a pen,
use it if it makes you feel a little bit more comfortable,” Egan said. “Start
with the place where you feel safest, holding your hands together or holding a
prop, but give yourself the chance to step away from that during the
presentation or interview. It makes you look stronger.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“In a conversation, (actors) never fully lock eyes with people,” Bentley
said. “We talk, we look people in the eyes, we have a thought, and we look
away. We look to the right, and we look to the left.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Egan agreed: When you start staring at them, you start "to look a
little crazy. If you feel like you are looking the person in the eye too
long, hold it one more second and break away.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23.5pt;">What To Do When Your
Inappropriate Email Gets Sent To The Wrong Person<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Instantaneous communication has made our lives
easier, but the drawback is that you can't retrieve messages after clicking
"send."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sometimes, mis-sent emails can be amusing. But if the exchange is
inappropriate and you're in a professional environment, those email errors
can be job-destroying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">So what should you do when you accidentally send an email to someone who
was never supposed to receive it? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cynthia Good, CEO of Little Pink Book — a career resource site
specifically for women — said this depends on the message itself. If
it's not serious or doesn't offend anyone, feel free to move on and
there's no need to even mention it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">However, if it does offend the recipient, it's best to confront the
situation immediately and as the sender, you should be the one making the first
move. This way, you are not waiting for the other party to come to you, but you
are bringing it up first because it's your wrongdoing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Good told us this situation has occurred in her office several times,
and it has gotten out of hand when not handled properly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"People got hurt, so we sat around and discussed it," Good
says. "I mean, no one wants to have these conversations, but sometimes,
those issues have already been there and now it's finally being brought to
light."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">According to a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://littlepinkbook.com/about-pink/press/little-pink-book-and-vitalsmarts-survey"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d637d; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">study conducted by Little PINK Book and VitalSmarts</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, one in five women quit their jobs due to “failed crucial
conversations," so by discussing these issues, Good says you have the
"opportunity to get to the root of the problem."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"Use these uncomfortable situations as a catalyst to operate even
better and improve on relationships between colleagues," she says. If not,
these underlying feelings of resentment will potentially lead to bigger
and more serious problems in the office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Read more:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-to-do-when-your-email-gets-sent-to-the-wrong-person-2012-5#ixzz1uOhDkr00"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #003399; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">http://www.businessinsider.com/what-to-do-when-your-email-gets-sent-to-the-wrong-person-2012-5#ixzz1uOhDkr00</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-56623658040108328502012-04-25T09:12:00.001-07:002012-04-25T09:12:51.693-07:00EXPAND YOUR TWITTER COMMUNITY<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">8 Tips to Help You Expand Your Twitter Community Rapidly<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Miltenberg, PR News</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On April 2,
the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://twitter.com/prnews"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #325a99; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">@PRNews</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Twitter account reached a milestone of 40,000 followers. Exactly
one year prior, the account had 4,400 followers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">While brand managers shouldn't view Twitter success as a numbers game or
popularity contest, building a larger following can help amplify your strategic
efforts—from customer service and fundraising to building awareness for your
brand. And, of course, it's just plain exciting to watch a community grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here are some of our lessons learned in building the PR News Twitter
community. </span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Don't be a droid</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">:
Show that you've got a human side, and that your account is not just an
automated RSS feed. Pose questions, use varied punctuation and provide a
tone and voice for your account—even if it's managed by multiple people.
Give your audience—and your prospective audience—a reason to follow you on
Twitter.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Respond when people talk to you</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">: When you receive an @ message or a direct
message—with the exception of automated direct messages—respond. Simply
say thank you, start a conversation and express gratitude when a
connection is made. If you're worried about filling up the feed with these
personal tweets and crowding the content-driven or business-goal tweets
that you feel the rest of your followers would prefer, you can schedule
them for off-peak times. Even then, the recipient will be notified you've
responded and will be more likely to engage with you again. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Speaking of scheduling
tweets...<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Schedule tweets for early mornings and later
hours: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">The social Web is a
24/7 content-consumption beast that should be fed even after you've left
the office for the day.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Give credit: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">With </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;"><a href="http://twitter.com/prnews"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #325a99; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">@PRNews</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;"> we're
fortunate to have a lot of stories of our own to link to, but if you don't
have that option, showcasing others' work is a great way to build
connections. Linking to a blog post, article, idea or any other type of
content through another person on Twitter is a great way to show your
audience you're a must-follow in your industry, and that you're not
operating in your own company's silo. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Participate in conversations at industry
events: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Be sure to know the
hashtag of the event you're attending, and keep the tweets flowing around
it before, during and after with summaries. Use direct quotes, @mentions
of speakers and retweets of fellow attendees to let everyone on site know
that you're worth following. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Integrate paid and earned</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">: Depending on your budget, placing ads on
Twitter to promote either individual tweets or your account itself can provide
high visibility for a relatively low cost. Dallas Lawrence, chief
global digital strategist for Burson-Marsteller, says Twitter's
sponsored campaigns are one of the best crisis management resources, and a
way to gain more relevant followers. “Twitter’s targeted follower
acquisition strategy is an effective way to go from 1,000 to 10,000
followers and can help amplify your messages,” says Lawrence.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Bookmark and use the PR News Twitter
Directory.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;"> This </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;"><a href="http://www.prnewsonline.com/prnews_twitter_directory/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #325a99; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Twitter
handle directory</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;"> of PR
agencies/consultants, corporations, nonprofit organizations, PR
professionals and media, is sortable by category and can help you find a
handle within the industry in a pinch. You can also find leading individuals
and companies to follow, as well as Twitter chats to participate in to
make more connections.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;">Make the tweets useful.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-AR;"> We link to useful content—both content
that we create and content created by others. But not everyone has time to
link through a tweet, so try to make the tweet itself valuable to your
community.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol>Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-30807272252173943112012-04-23T09:30:00.001-07:002012-04-23T09:30:58.229-07:00CROMOSOMAS DEL ESPAÑOL<br />
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Los cromosomas del idioma español<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<strong><span lang="ES-AR" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: inherit; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Álex
Grijelmo</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="ES-AR"> </span></span><span lang="ES-AR"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Debía dirigirme al aeropuerto de Bogotá,
en diciembre de 1997, y una empleada colombiana del Hotel de <st1:personname productid="la Ville" w:st="on">la Ville</st1:personname>, coqueto y francés, en
el norte de la ciudad, me advirtió: "No vaya usted por esa avenida, porque
a estas horas se encontrará un trancón".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
Jamás habría empleado yo la palabra "trancón". Habría hablado de
"embotellamiento" o "atasco". Pero entendí perfectamente un
vocablo que oía por vez primera en mi vida. ¿Por qué? Porque sabía reconocer
sus cromosomas, asociarlo en un instante con "atrancar" y con
"tranco", y con "tranquera". Los hablantes colombianos han
llegado, pues, a crear en español un concepto no heredado -quienes llegaron
tras Colón jamás pudieron referirse a un atasco de naos en hora punta-, y que
no figura en la última edición del<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Diccionario
de <st1:personname productid="la Real Academia" w:st="on">la Real Academia</st1:personname>
Española,.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>pero han inventado
legítimamente una palabra que responde al genio de nuestro idioma, una voz con
familia conocida cuya genética podemos identificar. En otros países de habla
hispana se buscó también la palabra adecuada para designar una acumulación de
vehículos que suman tal cantidad que no pueden pasar por un punto estrecho, y
se acudió a los conceptos del atasco en una tubería o al cuello de botella que
canaliza el líquido a borbotones hacia el exterior del recipiente. En Colombia
los hablantes pensaron también en algo que impide el paso, y se tropezaron con
el tranco de la puerta.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Estos cromosomas de las palabras -tan vinculados a la genética del idioma-
constituyen la base que nos permite asegurar que 400 millones de personas
hablamos la misma lengua.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
En Zacatecas (México) , precisamente durante el congreso sobre el idioma
español, necesité comprar lo que en España se llaman cuchillas de afeitar,
concepto que, tomando la parte por el todo ( sinécdoque) , incluye no sólo la
hoja sino también el manguito de plástico en el que ésta se inserta para mayor
comodidad del usuario. En fin, necesitaba cuchillas. La dependienta me entendió
muy bien, a pesar de que ella tampoco habría empleado nunca la expresión que yo
acababa de usar. "Ah, ya sé", me respondió. "Usted lo que quiere
es un rastrillo".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
En efecto, la cuchilla de afeitar, o de depilar, se acompaña por una especie de
rastrillo que pasa por la superficie de la cara, o de las piernas, para
arrancar el vello y respetar la piel, como el rastrillo del labrador quita las
piedras sin llevarse la tierra.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
He utilizado en páginas anteriores la palabra "altoparlante". Un
español acudiría siempre al vocablo "altavoz" (un español que no
fuera periodista, porque en ese caso lo normal sería que emplease<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>baffle).</i>Sin embargo,
"altoparlante" y "altavoz" pueden entrar en el vocabulario
de diálogo entre dos usuarios de español procedentes de México y España, porque
se entenderán bien con ellas: conocen sus cromosomas. Igual que cualquier
hispanohablante comprendería al mexicano que pidiese "agua de la llave
" donde tal vez él piensa "agua del grifo", que le invita a
"platicar" un rato, o que le recomienda cocer pescado "a fuego
manso"; o al peruano que se refiere a "la municipalidad" en vez
de al "ayuntamiento"; o a la colombiana que describe a un novio como
"muy avorazado". Porque todas esas expresiones tienen cromosomas
relacionados con <st1:personname productid="la Ila" w:st="on">la Ila</st1:personname>
que abre y cierra, con la plática del cura, con el calor inocuo frente al fuego
violento, con el concepto de municipio y con el adjetivo que se obtiene al
exprimir la palabra voracidad.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
En los últimos años han llegado al diario donde trabajo numerosos periodistas
latinoamericanos, que cumplen en <st1:personname productid="la Redacción" w:st="on">la Redacción</st1:personname> sus prácticas o sus becas, generalmente
tras unos meses de estudios en <st1:personname productid="la Escuela" w:st="on">la
Escuela</st1:personname> de Periodismo Universidad Autónoma<i>-ElPaís.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">A veces utilizan en sus reportajes ―que se
publican con normalidad en el diario, puesto que durante su estadía ejercen
como redactores― palabras que, perteneciendo al idioma español, tienen mayor
presencia en sus países que en España, donde el uso las sustituye por otras
igualmente válidas. Por ejemplo, ellos emplean muya menudo
"inclusive" en el lugar de "incluso". Algunos editores les
han corregido, sobre todo años atrás. Yo creo que no habría que hacerlo, y ésa
parece ser la tendencia actual. Por ejemplo, el 5 de agosto de 1988 se publica
en la sección de Deportes una información de Hernán Iglesias, argentino que cursaba
el posgrado en <st1:personname productid="la Escuela" w:st="on">la Escuela</st1:personname>
de Periodismo de<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>El País.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Y explica su texto: "La
comisión se expidió ayer también sobre los casos del Betis y el Valencia".
En efecto, "se expidió" sonará raro a muchos hispanohablantes, pero
el<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Diccionario<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>registra tal expresión como propia
de Chile y Uruguay (vemos que también en Argentina, como no podía ser de otra
manera si tenemos en cuenta la situación geográfica de los tres países), y la
define así en la entrada "expedir": "Pronominal [por tanto,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>expedirse,.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>es decir, como el periodista
argentino emplea el verbo]. Manejarse, desenvolverse en asuntos o
actividades". y pese a ser una expresión propia de determinados países,
los cientos de miles de lectores de<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>ElPaís<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>de Madrid habrán comprendido
perfectamente su significado, que habrán asociado sin duda con
"despachar".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Hablar un mismo idioma no equivale a utilizar las mismas palabras para todo. A
los españoles nos suenan hermosísimas muchas expresiones de América Latina
porque se hunden en lo más profundo de nosotros mismos y se nos muestran como
soluciones lógicas, pero diferentes, para nuestras propias ideas; y definen
además con exactitud nuestras propias ideas; aunque de un modo distinto.
Supongo que lo mismo le ocurre a un latinoamericano al escuchar a un español o a
cualquier otro hispanohablante de un país distinto al suyo. Eso es la unidad
del idioma, el genio profundo que da vigor a todo el sistema lingüístico, la
sima que podemos compartir 21 países y que arroja hacia la superficie criaturas
identificables porque proceden de la misma cultura. Que no es ya la cultura que
impusieron los españoles a partir de 1492, sino la que todos los pueblos
hispanohablantes han ido creando conjuntamente durante estos siglos.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
La unidad del idioma no se altera en absoluto por el hecho de que un español
bucee en la "piscina" mientras un mexicano nada en la "alberca
" y un argentino se baña en la "pileta", estando todos ellos en
el mismo lugar. Las tres -precisas, hermosas- parten de lo más profundo de
nuestro ser intelectual colectivo. Podemos ver el ADN de "piscina" en
<i>piscis,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>y en
"piscifactoría ", y hasta saber que la palabra procede de aquellos
estanques de los jardines que se adornaban con peces; y relacionar su
significado con un lugar donde se almacena agua y donde, como peces en el agua,
podemos aumentar la velocidad mediante unas aletas como las del pez, y también
nadar al estilo rana. Y la "alberca " mexicana ( del árabe<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>al birka,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>estanque) nos llevará por la
genética y la historia a terrenos de regadío rurales donde se hacía preciso
almacenar el agua para luego esparcirla, y donde los mozos del campo se
remojaban para ahuyentar la sofoquina. Y a la "pileta" podemos asociarla
con "pila" y con "pilón" ("¡al pilón, al pilón!",
se grita en los pueblos de Castilla cuando el grupo verbenero se quiere bajar
del escenario demasiado pronto), y tal expresión española es como las dos
anteriores.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
Los jóvenes mexicanos harán un clavado en el agua donde los barceloneses se
tirarían de cabeza o los limeños, entre otros, disfrutarían de una zambullida,
y el estilo empleado al hacerlo le parecería lindo a un chiapaneco y bonito a
un sevillano; y ambos se entenderían también, por más que el sevillano nunca
dijese "lindo" ni el chiapaneco "bonito", igual que el
español pronunciaría "paliza " donde el americano "golpiza"
y los dos entenderán la expresión del otro sin haberla pronunciado jamás. Y
ambos sabrán de lo que hablan cuando el mexicano cite "la
computadora" y el europeo "el ordenador", inf1uido aquél por el
por el inglés (pero con familia en el español: computar, cómputo...) y éste por
el francés (pero con los genes de las romances: orden, ordenar, el que ordena:
ordenador).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
Y si preguntamos en Argentina cuánto nos falta para llegar a una calle pueden
contestarnos que "dos cuadras" donde nosotros diríamos "dos
manzanas", pero tan metafórica resulta una expresión como otra y las
comprenderemos sin problemas<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.elcastellano.org/artic/grijel07.htm#nome1"><b><sup><span style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1</span></sup></b></a></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
El cada vez más intenso intercambio cultural entre los dos lados hispanos del
Atlántico va reproduciendo un fenómeno curioso: las palabras específicas -esas
soluciones distintas a cada lado, halladas en las esencias del idioma- circulan
ahora cada vez más desde Latinoamérica hacia España, asumidas rápidamente por
quienes las reconocen como propias aun inventadas a miles de kilómetros de
distancia. Los españoles, por ejemplo, hablan ya del "ninguneo" que
sufre alguien, una expresión y un verbo (ningunear) inexistentes en la
península hace apenas diez años; y "grabadora" "está
sustituyendo a "casete" con la fuerza del oleaje que la impulsó desde
América; y el "culebrón" ha reemplazado a la "telenovela"
en las pantallas y en el vocabulario de la gente. y con la gente empieza a
abrirse paso la palabra "engentarse", que podemos definir como
"saturación de presencia humana ", "estar ahíto de gente";
por ejemplo, en un bar de moda en el cual se hace imposible llegar a la barra
para pedir una copa. O en una fiesta a la que han acudido más invitados de los
que se esperaba. Situaciones ambas que le engentan a uno y le incitan a
marcharse, o al menos a desearlo.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
El intercambio de palabras, sin embargo, no data de los tiempos actuales. De
ello puede dar buena imagen la historia de la voz "tiza ", que
designa esa arcilla terrosa blanca que se utiliza para escribir en los
encerados. Un elemento, por cierto, que va desapareciendo de los colegios,
sustituida por los rotuladores de alcohol y las pizarras (que ya no lo son) de
plástico blanco; pero que permanecerá aún muchos años entre los jugadores de
billar, quienes usan un compuesto de greda y yeso para afinar la suela de los
tacos y al que llaman igualmente "tiza". Pues bien, la palabra
"tiza" procede del náhuatl, del vocablo <i>tizatl<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>que decían los indígenas, y de
allí se llevaron la palabra los españoles. Sin embargo, los mexicanos llaman a
la tiza "gis", palabra de raíz griega (del griego<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>gipsum,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>yeso) llevada a México
precisamente. ..por los españoles.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
El lenguaje del fútbol en España ha dado paso a numerosos argentinismos, y así
los locutores hablan de "botar un saque de esquina ", en una acepción
del verbo "botar" (lanzar, arrojar) que rara vez se usa para otros
lanzamientos en <st1:personname productid="la Península" w:st="on">la Península</st1:personname>
y las islas. Pocos españoles saben que la palabra "hincha ", que
todos ellos conocen como descriptiva del apasionado seguidor de un equipo,
nació en Uruguay, y que arranca del hecho de que el forofo que más animaba al
Nacional de Montevideo de principios de siglo era Reyes, el que hinchaba los
balones; el "hincha ".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
La palabra "auspiciar" -apoyar, proteger-, que el lingüista Rafael
Lapesa<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.elcastellano.org/artic/grijel07.htm#nome2"><b><sup><span style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">2</span></sup></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>recogía en 1966 como propia del
español de América y desconocida en España, circula ya con su documento de
identidad por toda <st1:personname productid="la Península" w:st="on">la
Península</st1:personname> y cualquier español habla ya de algo "novedoso
", una voz que entró en el<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Diccionario<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>en los años veinte, a propuesta de
Ramón Menéndez Pidal, con marchamo de americanismo. y con letras de canciones
-Chabuca Granda, Les Luthiers, Los Chalchaleros, Los Cuatro Cuartos, Cholo
Aguirre y sus ríos. .. Víctor Jara, Quilapayún, Facundo Cabral, Alberto Cortez,
Cafrune, Larralde, Chavela Vargas- o con las frases de la literatura, llegaron
también términos como "quebrada " (arroyo en Argentina, lo que un
chileno llamaría "acequia"), o "pollera" (falda), o
"vereda" (acera en Argentina) o "capitalino" ( de la
capital). En ellas vemos con precisión su significado: ¿No es hermoso pensar en
los quiebros que da el agua del riachuelo, o en los pollitos que alguna mujer
reunió en su falda, o en la vereda en la que un día se plantó el cemento de la
acera?; y las entendemos; y por eso podemos pensarlas.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
Lo mismo sucede cuando una camarera latinoamericana le pregunta a un español:
" ¿Le provoca un café?". Tal vez tenga la tentación de contestar que
le provoca más la camarera, pero habrá entendido el significado profundo de
"provocar" en español<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.elcastellano.org/artic/grijel07.htm#nome3"><b><sup><span style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">3</span></sup></b></a>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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¿Y cómo no comprender lo que se intenta decir cuando alguien anima a otro:
"hombre, no te me achicopales"? Y los hispanohablantes europeos
reconoceremos que achicopalarse refleja mucho más que acobardarse o retraerse,
que no se trata de un vocablo equivalente sino de otra manera de emplear el español,
en este caso con sus influencias indígenas, para llegar a un resultado
singular, cuyos cromosomas podemos relacionar con "achicarse" o
hacerse pequeño ante una adversidad.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.elcastellano.org/artic/grijel07.htm#nome4"><b><sup><span style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">4</span></sup></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Más fácil aún resultará entender a la
mexicana que nos presente a su novio con buen humor, resolviendo de un plumazo
las dudas del lado europeo del Atlántico entre "mi compañero",
"mi amigo", "mi prometido", "mi chico"." que
las distintas formas de convivencia han acabado por superar y que derivan en
que la gente que aún no ha llegado acierta edad se enrede en dudas al referirse
a su pareja. Pero la mexicana dirá: "...Y aquí le presento a mi pior es nada".
Y la comprenderemos perfectamente.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="" name="nome1"><b><sup>1</sup></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>El<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Diccionario<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>da una escueta explicación de la
palabra "cuadra", al definirla simplemente como algo cuadrado. Tal
vez debiera añadir que una cuadra es el lugar donde se encierra a los animales
(generalmente a los équidos) y también un conjunto de edificios cuyas calles
adyacentes forman un cuadrado.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<a href="" name="nome2"><b><sup>2</sup></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Rafael
Lapesa.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Revista de Occidente,
art. cit.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>"América y la
unidad de la lengua española”. Ese artículo se reproduce en<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>El español moderno y contemporáneo,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Rafael Lapesa,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>op. cit.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i><br />
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<a href="" name="nome3"><b><sup>3</sup></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>"Provocar",
por influencia del inglés, se hace equivaler a veces a "causar":
"le provocó una herida", en lugar de "le causó una herida".
"Provocar" implica una acción que acarrea o incita a otra acción.
Causar supone simplemente una acción, que alguien o algo recibe de manera
pasiva. Se ve mejor la diferencia en los sustantivos: causa y provocación; la
causa necesita sólo una acción; la provocación precisa una, pero pretende dos.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<a href="" name="nome4"><b><sup>4</sup></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Ni
achicopalarse ni engentarse figuran en el<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span lang="ES-AR" style="background: #ECE9D8; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Diccionario de <st1:personname productid="la Real Academia" w:st="on">la Real Academia</st1:personname>
Española.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How to be an
outstanding communicator<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #888888; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span class="authorvcardfn"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #888888; font-family: Georgia; letter-spacing: .5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-transform: uppercase;">MARTIN SHOVEL</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #888888; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #888888; font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The message from recruitment agencies, employer surveys and the like is
familiar, loud and clear: you must be an outstanding communicator if you want
to get to the top of your profession. Technical audit skills and practical
experience are, of course, essential, but they will only take you so far up the
greasy pole; to make it those extra few slippery feet to the very top you’re
going to have to find a way of transforming yourself from a good communicator
into an outstanding one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Keep it simple</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Outstanding communicators distinguish themselves by the way they use
language. The first thing that strikes you when you listen to an outstanding
communicator speak is the simplicity of their language: they use words you can
understand in a way that makes it easy to follow what they’re saying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But simple is hard, and takes courage. It takes courage because it goes
against the grain of workplace communications. In organisations, language is
often used as a protective veil whose main purpose is to cover the speaker’s
back rather than enlighten their audience. A concoction of jargonistic words
arranged into convoluted sentences is an effective way of covering up ideas
that are half-baked, obvious, or trivial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many people mistakenly equate this kind of overcomplicated,
difficult-to-follow language with cleverness. The following example – though
satirical – makes the point:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Undue multiplicity of personnel
assigned either concurrently or consecutively to a single function involves
deterioration of quality in the resultant product as compared with the product
of the labor of an exact sufficiency of personnel.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Masterson,
J. and Brooks Phillips, W., Federal Prose, 1948, Chapel Hill, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">North
Carolina</st1:placename></st1:place></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What effect does language like this have? It intimidates, it excludes,
it frustrates, and, ultimately, it wastes time (and therefore money!). It
embodies everything that is the antithesis of outstanding communication. It is
puffed up, self-serving – and, in the final analysis, like the emperor’s new
clothes it leaves its author looking naked and foolish. Translated into the
language of clarity and simplicity, the same gobbledygook becomes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Too many cooks spoil the broth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Beyond plain English</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Clear, plain English is an essential part of good communication. It is
the language of instructions that are easy to follow, intelligible contracts,
and business letters that read as if they’ve been written by an articulate and
sympathetic human, not a machine. But outstanding communicators, although
masters of plain English, come into their own when they move beyond it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Clear explanation is the forte of the good communicator. But clear
explanation alone isn’t going to be enough to persuade people to vote for you,
or to inspire them to follow you into the heat of battle. You need something
more: you need to be able to communicate in a way that appeals not just to
minds, but to hearts as well. When Barack Obama began his bid for the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> presidency
in 2007 he was a rank outsider, an unknown. It was the power of his oratory
that opened the doors of the White House to him. Writing back in 2008, The New
Yorker’s George Packer wrote that, moments after listening to Obama’s <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Hampshire</st1:place></st1:state> campaign
speech, “the speech dissolved into pure feeling, which stayed with me for
days.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Warming up your language</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Modern neuroscience has demonstrated conclusively that we feel our way
into decisions. Numerous case studies have shown that people with damage to the
parts of their brain responsible for emotional reactions are unable to make
decisions at all. It seems that the rational mind working by itself dithers
endlessly as it weighs up the various possible reasons for taking one course of
action rather than another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So, to be an outstanding communicator you have to begin by engaging
people’s feelings. Once people care about what you’re saying, you have their
attention. And the key to making people care is your choice of words. Words are
the wrapping for your communications, and if you want your audience to unwrap
what you say, you need to warm up your language.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The notion that words can be warm or cold might sound strange, but let’s
test it out by returning to the piece of gobbledygook I quoted earlier. Like a
lot of organisational speak, it’s crammed full of long words of Latin origin:
words like ‘multiplicity’, ‘personnel’, ‘assigned’, ‘concurrently’ and so on –
I‘m sure you get the drift.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Imagine for a moment that you’re at a friend’s party and you find
yourself chatting with someone you’ve never met before, over a glass of wine.
How would you feel if your new acquaintance (another Latinate word) spoke to
you using long Latinate words. I suspect that, like most other people, you’d
experience him as distant, cold and, given the context, weird.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But what makes ‘friend’ a warmer word than ‘acquaintance’, and ‘many’ a
warmer word than ‘multiplicity’? Well, here’s a clue: say the word
‘acquaintance’ to a young child and they’ll give you a blank look. But follow
it with the word ‘friend’ and their eyes will light up as the word conjures up
an image of someone they love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Words like ‘friend’, ‘cook’, and ‘dog’ are common everyday words; and,
like most common everyday words, their origins lie in Old, and Middle, English.
These also happen to be the first words we learn as children – they mark our
entry into the realm of language, and verbal communication. Our relationship to
them is a visual one, because our first encounter with them is one of pointing,
touching or physically interacting with the thing they represent. They embody
that magical moment when things become words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Visual language</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">By contrast, words of Latinate origin are latecomers to the English
language party – both historically, and in the language acquisition of an
individual. This explains why a word like ‘dog’ brings to mind an image, while
a word like ‘canine’ probably doesn’t. Outstanding communicators favour words
of English origin because they are warm and visual – they help other people
‘see’ what you mean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A quotation ascribed to Winston Churchill offers a good rule of thumb
for choosing warm, visual words: “broadly speaking, the short words are the
best, and the old words best of all.” It’s no accident that the final lines
from one of Churchill’s most famous and stirring speeches (“we shall fight on
the beaches”) is full of “old words” – “beaches”, “landing grounds”, “fields”,
“streets” and “hills”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The multisensory power of
concrete language</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Latinate words are cold and abstract; Old English words are warm and
concrete. Concrete words aren’t just visual, they are multisensory – they
engage all our senses. When Churchill used words like “beaches” and “fields”,
he knew that they would invoke a variety of sensory responses in his audience:
the sight of the sand and the azure blue sky; the sound of the waves lapping on
the seashore and the shriek of the gulls; the smell of the sea; the salty taste
on their tongue; and the feeling of warm grains of sand on the soles their
feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Advertisers constantly exploit the power of multisensory concrete
language. They don’t try to sell us just any old generic chicken. No, it’s not
just chicken: they tell us it’s actually farm-reared, organic, golden Wiltshire
farm chicken. Carefully selected picture words like these are designed to give
us an experience – one that appeals to our tastebuds and stomachs, as well as
our intellects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Outstanding communicators don’t tell, they show. Statistics are
abstractions that leave us cold. If you want to bring home the full horror of a
natural disaster, you don’t talk about the thousands of people who have
perished, and the unimaginable scale of the humanitarian disaster visited upon
those who’ve survived. Instead, you put the disaster into a human context by
making it concrete, and you do this by focusing on the story of a single family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Story and metaphor</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Study after study shows that people are very poor at understanding risk.
And disasters like the financial meltdown and the BP oil spill raise the
question of just how effective risk experts are at communicating what they know
about risk to non-specialists. Outstanding communicators understand the limits
of statistical data – they know that in most instances it just goes over the
heads of a lay audience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The most effective way of communicating risk is to get people to feel
it, and the way to do this is to use story and metaphor to create an
imaginative experience of what the risk is like – one that make sense in terms
of what people already understand. To most lay people, a statistic like: 50
million acres of rainforest are cut down every year, doesn’t mean too much. It
doesn’t sound good, but it’s far too abstract for a non-specialist to grasp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Most people don’t know what an acre looks like, and they certainly have
no experience of quantities as large as 50 million. On hearing a statistic like
this neither their brains nor their emotions are engaged. So the chances of
keeping their attention are slim at best. Al Gore faced the problem of
communicating this statistic in his campaign to save the rainforest, and being
an outstanding communicator he chose to dramatise the statistics by
transforming them into a story-like metaphor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“We lose one acre of rainforest every second. Imagine a giant invader
from space with football-field sized feet, clomping across the rainforests of
the world – going boom, boom, boom every second. Would we react? Well, that’s
essentially what’s going in the rainforests right now!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Putting it all together</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Gore’s transformation of a dry statistic into a story metaphor that
helps people experience as well as understand the enormity of the situation,
exemplifies all the elements that make an outstanding communicator. From the
outset, Gore doesn’t allow his expertise to act as a barrier between himself
and his audience – after all, the word “communication” originates from a Latin
word meaning “to share”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rather than blinding them with science, he puts himself into his
audience’s shoes and looks for a way of helping them understand what they don’t
know (the statistic) in terms of something they’re familiar with (football
fields and B movies about invaders from space). He uses familiar, short,
concrete, visual words – and he makes the simple complex without compromising
its integrity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So the key to transforming yourself into an outstanding communicator is
to make your language as visual and concrete as possible. And the best way of
doing this is to heed Churchill’s advice and go for short, everyday words,
rather than difficult-to-understand long ones. Always think carefully about who
you’re speaking to, and never allow your expertise to shroud your message in
fog. Finally, use story and metaphor to bring what you say to life – and always
remember that outstanding communicators move hearts as well as minds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(This article was published in
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the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors’ magazine. Shortly after it
appeared, the IIA’s Keith Labbett – Head of Audit at British Waterways –
invited us to give a two hour interactive plenary session on ‘Outstanding
Communications’ to the IIA’s South West Conference, which we did on 12th May
2011. Delegates loved our session and found it both stimulating and
practical. We could do something similar for your conference, so please
get in touch if you’d like to talk things over.)</span></em><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Outside The Boxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902199501079299025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050596198365042814.post-13679894214983202372012-04-10T05:14:00.002-07:002012-04-10T05:15:19.917-07:00Tips for Freelancers<br />
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One of the great allures of the freelance life is the opportunity to gain more control over how you spend your time. But making that dream a reality while building a successful, sustainable business can prove to be a challenge.</div>
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For starters, there’s the nagging anxiety that if you’re not working you’re not making money, which is, unfortunately, largely true. There’s no such thing as paid time off in the freelance world. Working for yourself revives the old cliché that “Time is money.” Mismanaging your time can become exceedingly expensive and sidetrack an otherwise promising career. This fact becomes even more apparent when you factor in all the mundane but necessary non-paying tasks of running your business, such as <a href="https://www.elance.com/q/find-work/guaranteed-payments" style="color: #006eb3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">invoicing</a>, courting new clients, and paying taxes.</div>
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So what are the best ways to <a href="https://www.elance.com/p/blog/2011/09/infographic-how-small-businesses-use-and-lose-time.html" style="color: #006eb3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">maximize your time</a> as a freelancer? We asked Jerome Iveson, founder of <a href="http://thrivesolo.com/" style="color: #006eb3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Solo</a>, an online project-management suite designed specifically for freelancers, to share his thoughts. He offered some straightforward advice for how to manage your most valuable commodity and to avoid common time sinks.</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1. Overestimate your time.</strong> Freelance pros who don’t take steps to adequately understand how much time a project or assignment will require set themselves up for major management headaches. If you ever take on work thinking “piece of cake,” take a moment to be sure it’s not a schedule drain in disguise. “Underestimating how long something will take is a killer. Always overestimate,” Iveson says. “This is especially the case if you are attempting something new that may be just outside your comfort zone. Learning on the job is all well and good, but it will take longer.”</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2. Charge what you’re worth.</strong> Bad morale—or flat-out apathy—can lead to the deadly sin of procrastination. (For more on that, see #6.) This problem can appear under various guises, one of which is low pay. “Make sure you charge what you are worth. Never undercharge,” Iveson says. “Working too hard for too little will sap morale.”</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3. Learn to say “no.” </strong>It’s easy, especially when you’re just starting out as a freelancer, to say “yes” to everything. Perhaps this is because you won’t get far if your clients are unhappy. But you need to set limits, too. “Clients will sometimes be testing, wanting results quicker or cheaper. Try to stick to your guns. Be firm and fair,” Iveson says. “One needy client can impact the rest of your schedule.” Decline jobs that aren’t worth your time or energy.</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">4. Make a project plan.</strong> Good time-management starts with a written plan, whether you prefer the latest digital tools or old-fashioned pen and paper. “Have a plan of what you want to achieve in a certain given timeframe,” Iveson says. “It doesn’t have to be detailed or rigid; a simple to-do list will work fine.”</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">5. Don’t beat yourself up. </strong>No one is perfect. Even if you’re a freelancing veteran, you’re likely to make mistakes every now and again. Whether you miss a self-imposed deadline or make another misstep, don’t compound the issue by wallowing in it. “Don’t be too hard on yourself if you don’t get something done on time,” Iveson says. “Learning from your mistakes and understanding how to improve is better than punishing yourself.”</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">6. Don’t put things off.</strong> We know, we know—that’s easier said than done. But procrastination will waylay your profitability. Chuck those bad habits and devote your work time to, well, working. Develop an action-oriented mind-set around moving projects toward completion and making smart, efficient choices. Iveson notes that that doesn’t mean you should always be in a rush. “Make timely and informed decisions. If you aren’t sure about a decision, sleep on it, reassess, and then act.” </div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">7. Track every minute of your time. </strong>No matter how you bill clients, you can’t become more efficient if you have only a vague sense (or no idea whatsoever) of how you spend your days. You need to quantify the time you invest in projects and clients to determine whether any given one is boosting—or killing—your bottom line. To this end, track your time in a detailed fashion by whatever means works best for you. “Religiously track your time, even if you don’t charge per hour,” Iveson says. “It’s very easy to spend time doing something you love. But, if you don’t know how much time you’ve spent, how do you know if a project is profitable? If you keep spending more time than quoted on a certain task, it may be time to adjust your quote accordingly.”</div>
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Fortunately, the online era has spawned a wealth of new tools that can help maximize your resources. The web abounds with smart tools for the modern freelancer, such as project management software, <a href="https://www.elance.com/r/contractors/q-virtual%20assistance/cat-admin-support/" style="color: #006eb3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">virtual assistants</a> for those non-revenue-generating tasks, and marketplaces like Elance to help you <a href="https://www.elance.com/q/find-work/online-work-overview/" style="color: #006eb3; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">find work.</a></div>
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word nonsensically wrong, writers such as James Joyce knew exactly what they
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was sitting in a cafe – one of those generic<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>pain au raisin</em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and latte joints, with an earnest
singer-songwriter soundtrack to boot – when a kid to my left piped up: "My
school gym is like literally 500 years old." His friends nodded with
conviction. They understood. They felt the appalling deprivation of
it all. A 500-year-old cross-trainer just isn't any good to anybody. But I
wasn't going to underestimate my table-neighbour just yet. I couldn't give up
on him like that. After all, I appreciated the subtle contradiction of that
"like", poised on the edge of potential simile, and that bold,
indicative "literally", ready-armoured for its grapple with hard
fact. But then, a couple of sentences further into their criss-crossing
conversation, he said: "I'm literally gutted that I failed my English
mock." Ah, well, yes, quite. The country is literally going to the dogs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Actually,
I rather enjoy it when people force a "literally" where the
antithetical and more pretentious "figuratively" would do – would, in
fact, be more literal. But I have my limits. If you literally spray me with
your false statements, do I not drown? If you literally press it upon me that
the impossible has indeed happened, do I not recoil? However, one needs to be
careful in diagnosing such linguistic ills. Nobody likes the queasy pedant
creeping up with cold fingers, ready to clip our wings. (He tends to sit on his
own in the corner of generic<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>pain au raisin</em>, skinny latte joints where
they play singer-songwriter tunes.) It is an unfashionable and unendearing
role.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">But
as Anthony Burgess once said, the poet and the pedant are as one, and grammar
is glamour. So let's be poetical. Let's indulge ourselves in some glamour. It
is tiresome to merely point out the ridiculousness of a statement such as
"that cross to Rooney was literally on a plate" (</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Redknapp" title=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #005689; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Jamie Redknapp</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">) or "Barca literally passed Arsenal to death" (Jamie
Redknapp) or "he had to cut back inside on to his left, because he
literally hasn't got a right foot" (Jamie Redknapp). It is even more
boring to then counter this with a pained attempt at sarcasm such as "did
he smash the china?", "someone should call the police" or
"wow, a uniped footballer" (Unglamorous Pedant). It is far more
interesting and glamorous to question what we are doing when we say "he
walks into the room and he's literally like a hurricane" (Chantelle
Houghton) or when, over a contemplative cuppa perhaps, we merely observe that
"centre forwards have the ability to make time stand still. And when
Chopra got the ball, it literally did just that" (Jamie Redknapp). What,
for instance, might these phrases have to say about our relationship
to reality?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">I'm no socio-linguist or
cognitive-scientist, but I do like to float some hypotheses: maybe we're a
generation that is scared of commitment, linguistically deferring reality with
our false literallys and our compulsive "likes" and "sort
ofs" and "kind of things" that make everything seem only
tentative and approximate; maybe our literallys are geared for emphasis, betraying
a touching desire to be taken seriously or a cry for attention; maybe our
misuse reveals a deeper insecurity about what in fact is real; maybe it
reflects a sheer disregard for proportion or accuracy; or maybe it arises
from a subconscious need for universality in a confusing age of spiralling
subjectivities and relativistic hopscotch, longing to pin down objective truths
in even the most fantastical of scenarios …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Of
course, we might just be lazy and imprecise users of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/language" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Language"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #005689; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">language</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">.
But what happens when James Joyce uses "literally" incorrectly, as
when he says that "Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off
her feet" or tells us that to Leopold Bloom's mind the Gloria in
Mozart's Twelfth Mass is "the acme of first class music as such,
literally knocking everything else into a cocked hat". </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Is James's
"literally" any better than Jamie's?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">I
would suggest that a writer must have good reason for misusing the word. After
all, literally also means "to the letter" and "of
literature" (deriving from the Latin for "letter":<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>littera</em>),
so we should expect a degree of exactitude and particularity from a man of
letters such as Joyce. And he more than delivers, misusing his literallys to
grant us a deeper insight into the workings of his characters' minds. Just to
take the second example from above, Joyce is not only able to tell us something
about the dynamic interaction between Bloom's thirst for "higher" knowledge
and his bourgeois background, but, more intimately, he is able to embody
Bloom's capacity for empathy – Bloom can harmonise high and low, just as he can
align the literal and the figurative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Salman
Rushdie is another serial "literaliser". He never tires of taking
phrases that sound like classic hyperbole ("I am literally
disintegrating", "he began, literally, to fade" in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight's_Children" title=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #005689; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Midnight's Children</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">) and making them, well, literal. In doing so he creates fantastic
otherwise worlds, where the angle of vision has been slightly adjusted so that
we might see things anew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">The
point is that these writers are actually being highly precise in their misuses.
Here is a particular favourite of mine: "The earth is literally a mirror
of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark
backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything." This is the
sublime Saul Bellow in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt's_Gift" title=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #005689; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Humboldt's Gift</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">. The thoughts are partially ironised – they belong to the novel's
narrator, who is struggling to summarise a range of impenetrable philosophical
works – but nevertheless contain immense truth and beauty. However, it is by
working through and beyond that initial intervening "literally" that
he gets to the pure metaphor of the last sentence. And it is in that last
sentence that we hit the heights of genius.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Writers such as Bellow, Joyce and
Rushdie remind us of the fundamentally comic nature of life. That's not comic
as in "ha ha" comedy (there's little to laugh about in those Bellow
lines), but something more essential – a mood perhaps, maybe even a quality of
vision. It has to do with life's potential for adjustability and transformation;
with a reality of shifting proportions, surprising angles, creative awrynesses.
The comic world is above all an inclusive world. It is also opposite to the
tragic view of a harsh and prohibitive world, where the literal – the objective
truth – is inflexible and unassailable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Clive James once called a sense of
humour "common sense dancing". I think that this is profound. If
it is so, then misuses of literally are common sense raving: we know that the
fans behind the goalpost haven't literally gone insane (Jamie Redknapp) and
that Messi doesn't literally send people out of the stadium (Jamie Redknapp).
The writers, however, are the ones who recognise our powerful need for the
literal and figurative. They convey our longing for some kind of sympathy between
the figurative expressions of our imaginations (clumsy and beautiful as they
are) and the empirical truth of the literal world that we seek to describe. The
writers show us that if the world is a mirror of thoughts, no straightforwardly
literal statement will ever be enough to help us see it more clearly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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