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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] English Language, and the English inability to use it correctly !
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:28:03 -0000
For an antidote, try "Principles of Corporate Finance" by Dick Brealey & Stu
Myers, who have a neatly jocular way with some of their footnotes, which are
all the more useful for it.

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Piers 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Barker
Sent: 04 December 2004 18:44
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] English Language, and the English inability to use it
correctly !


Jon

You should try reading academic books once in a while: the English is pretty
ropey most of the time, but the worst aspect of them is the jargon which the
authors seem to feel essential to appear learned!  I am studying "Financial
Strategy" with the Open University (for an MBA in case I have to get a
proper job when the MOD eventually shuts me
out) and the academic jargon in that is mind-numbing at times.

Chris


On 2 Dec 2004, at 10:27, Jon Mitchell wrote:

> Now just the other day I was reading one of my CDO's books.  Being a 
> bit of a Sci-Fi nut, it was a little bit on the geeky side.  I shan't 
> mention the title, for fear of urine extraction !!  However, I was 
> absolutely appalled by the abysmal spelling, grammer, and punctuation 
> which appeared on almost every page.  If this is the state of things, 
> I don't hold out much hope for future generations.
>
<|_:-)_|>
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
http://www.threeshoes.co.uk
http://homepage.mac.com/zuiko


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