http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2010/03/08/obsession-over-word-repetition/ Thinkshift blog on communications & sustainability Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2010/03/08/obsession-over-word-repetition/comment-page-1/#comment-5757 Carolyn McMaster Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:22:05 +0000 http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/?p=405#comment-5757 Single words often do matter. Just after reading this post I saw the article headline, "Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and ..." My first thought was, I had no idea the Harvard Business Review had any interest in office shenanigans! (The last part of the headline, "... Race Composition on Turnover," cleared things up.) Here, "gender" rather than "sex" would be much clearer. Obviously, no one was thinking about this one. Single words often do matter. Just after reading this post I saw the article headline, “Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and …” My first thought was, I had no idea the Harvard Business Review had any interest in office shenanigans! (The last part of the headline, “… Race Composition on Turnover,” cleared things up.) Here, “gender” rather than “sex” would be much clearer. Obviously, no one was thinking about this one.

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