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After Inception

My daughter wanted to know why I was walking so fast. We were in Barcelona on our way back from the cinema. We were on a high from watching Inception, the film on dreams and thesubconscious with Leonardo DiCaprio, and were discussing the puzzling ending — but that wasn’t the reason I was rushing.

Unterbewusstsein

rätselhaft

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Email? No, thank you!

When I got back to work last week after a two-week holiday, a mountain of emails awaited me. Well, 688, to be precise. I am not bragging or trying to create any sense of email envy. I just want to know what these emails are.

erwarten

angeben

Neid

That's far too long. Keep it short and sweet next time.

Short forms

Expressions with “short” often have a negative meaning, especially in business contexts. What about short forms?

Networking cultures

What's the first thing you do when you return to work after a holiday? I normally chat with a few well-informed colleagues.

plaudern

From dismal to happy

"Dismal" is a word that is often employed to describe economics, and "thedismal science " was the phrase used by the 19th-century British historian Thomas Carlyle. But I've found a book about economics that could make you happy.

angewendet

Wirtschaftswissenschaften

trostlose Wissenschaft

Wendung

Greek figs and the English language

Should I write to the Greek newspaper? If I do, my husband says he’ll write to the linguists at Oxford.

Sprachwissenschaftler

Another country

"I cried when I left France" was the headline in a newspaper for British expatriates living in France.

Schlagzeile

im Ausland Lebende

What euro crisis?

This week, we have a little test for you. Oh, come on, stop complaining — we haven't done one for a long time. The question is very simple: what is the current euro/dollar exchange rate to two decimal places? Don't cheat now...

aktuell

Wechselkurs

zwei Stellen hinterm Komma

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Sarah Palin's Shakespearean Tweets

Which one of this week’s Wise Words would you choose to complete this tweet? Refute, repudiate or refudiate?

Seeing the future of the media

What will be the future of the media? As someone who works for a publisher that creates magazines, audio CDs, podcasts, videos, websites and many other products, I clearly have more than a passing interest in the subject.

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