Thanks Piers, that sounds like a good plan! I need a bit of jocularity
in my footnotes ... ;-)
Are you one of the types that Monty Python described as being "too
boring to be of consequence"?
Chris
On 4 Dec 2004, at 19:28, Piers Hemy wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> 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
>
>
> O<|_:-)_|>
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