I usually speak to journalists about Java, WSDL and other computer languages. But a recent interview with USA Today was very different. Here is the story…
It’s one of those things you never notice as you’re doing it but I realized that we use a bewildering array of idioms in our speech. Sometimes it seems we try hard to avoid saying anything without analogy. In fact it’s a bit of a competition in meetings to be the one to come up with the best analogy to fit the situation under discussion.
Roman is founder and CEO of GoodData. He had the crazy idea back in 2007 that cloud computing could finally make good on the broken promises of generations of Business Intelligence Software. Roman has been a tech entrepreneur for almost 20 years. He was Founder and CEO of NetBeans (acquired ... Continue reading »
It’s one of those things you never notice as you’re doing it but I realized that we use a bewildering array of idioms in our speech. Sometimes it seems we try hard to avoid saying anything without analogy. In fact it’s a bit of a competition in meetings to be the one to come up with the best analogy to fit the situation under discussion.
Now that you have an English language blog, think of it as a great opportunity to sprinkle sports metaphors in your commentary.