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What is IT training?

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Play”] It seems like such a simple question to answer, doesn’t it?  But if you ask a random group of people what their definition of IT training is, you will actually broadly get two different options.  Interestingly, neither one of these answers is wrong.  However, it demonstrates the importance of making sure that you…

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1 word = 179 meanings

The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains 171,476 words in current use and 47,156 obsolete words. 9,500 derivative words included are considered subentries. More than half of these words are nouns, about a quarter adjectives, and about a seventh verbs – the rest is made up of exclamations, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc.…

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11 words that you can not translate into English

There is no doubt that the relationship between the words and their meaning is a fascinating one. Linguists spend countless years deconstructing it, taking it apart letter by letter, all in order to figure out why there are so many feelings and ideas that we cannot even put words to, describe the meaning from one…