3 responses to “Business blogs sell emotions”

1. 

   Armin

   5 March 2007

   Worse than my Swedish, French and Scots.

2. 

   Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with “sketch”)

   6 March 2007

   Good enough to read this–with a dictionary. (I’m out of practice; not much of my work calls for foreign languages these days.) It always does amuse me how the flow of Italian comes to a screeching halt whenever a foreign word like “blog” appears.

   So did they interview you in Italian, or in English? I remembered that you were fluent in Spanish and good in Dutch, but not that you spoke Italian.

   Amusing point about the Mediterranean love of talking. I didn’t notice that the English disliked talking–they just don’t talk about *themselves* as much.

3. 

   neville

   6 March 2007

   Me too, Armin, especially the Scots. Or should that be Scotch?

   The interview was in English, Sallie. It always impresses me when I encounter anyone from a European country whose command and use of the English language is often better than some native speakers I know.

   Speaking Spanish is a big help in understanding other Romance languages such as Italian. Not every word nor the complete syntax but more than enough to get the gist of a text.

   I also ran the published interview through Babelfish, and the resulting text in English of course had me splitting my sides!