The Culture of Exchanging Business Cards

As important as one’s attire and presentation is to any business interaction, the exchange of business cards is just as important and far from routine, particularly when interacting with clients and colleagues of other cultures. The business card after all represents you long after the physical meeting has taken place and is integral to the [...]

The Croatian (ahem) Anthem

Kwintessential shares the story of how a linguistic and rather X-rated mistake may have proven to be a good omen for the Croatian team at the Euro 2008 finals. Read on …

When translations go wrong

Kwintessential shares this link to a Guardian article that reports on how mistaken words and a literal translation provided by translation web site Babel Fish, almost led to a diplomatic incident. It is an interesting read, but not necessarily surprising. I often use Babel Fish to help me in translating messages to French and Spanish for both business and personal communications. However, [...]

Why not join us on Facebook?

For the past few months our communication with readers has become skewed as we have unfortunately had to shut down our comments function due to an overwhelming influx of spam. However, we hope that you will join us on Facebook where our conversations can get going again. Whether you subscribe to this blog or our [...]