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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Personal message

If any of our friends read here but not on BookFace, you should congratulate Olga: her first interview for teaching (mathematics in an international school) and she got the job. Μπράβο αγάπη μου!

Spin

I was reading Style: Ten lessons in clarity and grace1 this morning over breakfast and found the following gem. It’s an illustration of how choosing the grammatical subjects of your sentences carefully can let you manipulate your message, while apparently conveying the same information. “Tom got in my way, we bumped, my glass dropped, and [...]