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Excise the word like from your spoken English.‘ Do you use the word like as a verbal tic? I mean like, do you insert it in, like, random points in your, like, spoken conversation? If the answer is yes, this is the single most important tip in the entire book: STOP IT.’
Impact used as verve.‘ The use of impact as a verb when you mean affect, has gotten out of hand. The correct meaning of impact as a verb is to come into forcible contact with another object. A collision is involved.’
Acknowledge receipt.‘ Things get lost in cyberspace. Emails scroll off the screen and are forgotten. So if you get an email that contains an instruction or a notification, make sure you let the sender know right away that you got it. My standard response in such cases is a one / word reply,“ Roger”.
‘ But there’ s an old saying among poker players: if you’ re at a table for more than half anhour and can’ t tell who the sucker is, you’ re it.’
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