For me, the word Sumo conjures up a vision of large men in loincloths. Now without wishing to insult these …
I’ve never imagined a pen to be anything other than unisex. Well, the powers that be at Bic seem to think otherwise as the Bic for Her Amber ballpoint is marketed especially for women. Something a little hard to get my head around from a company with a culture statement “for everyone everywhere”
Found this while net stumbling and it seemed worth a quick share.
There’s one thing you really need to know if you ever plan to do business in China.
Choose your pen carefully.
If you love reading and you love old handwritten documents, here’s a suggestion: some rainy Sunday afternoon, make yourself a cup of your favorite tea, curl on the couch with your tablet and read some of history’s most famous books in their original handwritten form.
One of the most recent to show up online is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, made available by the Shelley-Godwin Archive.
The collection offers both her notebooks and her working drafts of the book. Fortunately, the pages are accompanied by a helpful transcription of the text, exactly as it was written, because her handwriting looks like maybe she was dictating to Frankenstein’s monster.
And that’s only the beginning.
I have to admit, as an American, my inner 12-year-old gets to giggling whenever one of my British colleagues refers to an eraser as a “rubber.”
That’s why I enjoyed this BBC piece translating common office terms for Brits working in America and vice versa.