{"id":5662,"date":"2022-02-08T17:41:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.jolliffe.de\/?p=5662"},"modified":"2022-02-08T18:15:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T18:15:36","slug":"nouns-and-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/uncategorized\/nouns-and-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nouns and Verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:23% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"789\" src=\"http:\/\/test.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Nouns-and-verbs-1024x789.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5663 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Some of you may know that I translate CVs and do English interview training including management webinars. Part of the webinar is give an Elevator Pitch where you have to sell yourself in 90 seconds (or the time it takes an elevator to go up a building). In a webinar last week, I noticed that my German managers\u2019 pitches weren\u2019t punchy (schlagkr\u00e4ftig) enough because they were using the nominal style instead of the verbal style. Now what is she talking about you ask? I mean instead of using nouns such as <em>my key competencies include<\/em> \u2026, it is much more dynamic to say <em>I can, I lead, I manage<\/em> \u2026 etc. In fact, using verbs generally makes English sound better. Compare these two sentences:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Apple\u2019s gain in market share in the early 2000s was in large part the result of its channeling significant resources into the development of the iPhone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Apple gained market share in the early 2000s in large part because it channeled significant resources into developing the iPhone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you see what I mean? The second one is easier to understand isn\u2019t it? This concept of verbal vs. nominal style is probably why <em>working from home<\/em> became <em>Home Office<\/em> and <em>viewing in public<\/em> became <em>Public Viewing<\/em>. Neither are wrong, they are just attributes of the language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact English sometimes goes too far with verbs as far as I am concerned. Instead of saying <em>I gave him a book as a present<\/em>, I often hear <em>I gifted him a book<\/em> and he <em>inboxed me<\/em> really irritated me when you can say <em>he sent me an email<\/em>. So when you\u2019re speaking or writing in English, just check to see if using verbs would make your language smoother or more effective, just as I try to use more nouns when I speak German, even though using the right article is a guessing game \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may know that I translate CVs and do English interview training including management webinars. Part of the webinar is give an Elevator Pitch where you have to sell yourself in 90&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6441,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions\/6441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}