Salute

Snapshot of two small boys saluting their mother. One of them knew what he was doing; the other one, needed a bit more practice. Their mother patiently waited for the salutes to finish. Photo by ©Omar Upegui R.

This is a nice English word very similar to “saludo” in Spanish.  A salute has several meanings.  It could be a formal military gesture of respect, like the one the kids were doing, or to greet somebody in a friendly way.  Example:  “I meet this man every day on my way to work and he always salutes me.”

Another word to add to the list.  This makes me a happy man with a warm smile on my face.  It’s nice and warm outside, and the smell of home-made coffee is in the air.  Breakfast is almost ready.  Good Day.

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Wall Street’s New Vocabulary

CEO – Chief Embezzlement Officer.

CFO — Corporate Fraud Officer.

BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

VALUE INVESTING — The art of buying low and selling lower.

P/E RATIO — The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.

BROKER — What my broker has made me.

STANDARD & POOR — Your life in a nutshell.

STOCK ANALYST — Idiot who just downgraded your stock.

STOCK SPLIT — When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.

FINANCIAL PLANNER — A guy whose phone has been disconnected.

MARKET CORRECTION — The day after you buy stocks.

CASH FLOW– The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

YAHOO — What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.

WINDOWS — What you jump out of when you’re the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR — Past year investor who’s now locked up in a nuthouse.

PROFIT — An archaic word no longer in use.

Source:  Bits & Pieces

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Be Careful With Your English

Be careful with your English or you might end up selling human flesh at the market and get arrested for it.  Take a close look at the blue sign above the business place.

Would you feel inclined to buy your food there? 

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The Loco English Language

I think English is a loco language. Please read the following poem out loud. I dare you!

“I take it you already know,
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word,
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead – it’s said like bed, not bead,
For goodness’ sake, don’t call it ‘deed’!
Watch out for meat and great and threat,
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there’s dose and rose and lose –
Just look them up – and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go and thwart and cart –
Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Why man alive!
I’d mastered it when I was five.”

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