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		<title>cool word: bifurcate</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/cool-word-bifurcate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m reading Women, Faith, And Work How Ten Successful Professionals Blend Belief.  Specifically, I&#8217;m reading the chapter on Goldie Rotenberg: Real-Estate Attorney.  The author, in describing Goldie&#8217;s life as a Hebrew Christian, mentions her involvement with &#8220;a mission devoted to evangelism among Jewish people&#8221; and how it
&#8220;has helped maintain her sanity in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com&blog=222849&post=42&subd=pragmaticcommunication&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>an sill air ee</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/an-sill-air-ee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stiles Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why have I never used this word?
ancillary
The definition at http://dict.die.net adj reads:
&#8220;relating to something that is added but is not essential&#8221;
Encarta even has a button to click if you need to hear the proper pronunciation.  (sounds like “an sill air ee” with the emphasis on the “an”)
The encarta.msm.com definitions are:
&#8220;1. subordinate: in a position [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com&blog=222849&post=13&subd=pragmaticcommunication&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>voice mail is a tool.</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/voice-mail-is-a-tool-let-it-work-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stiles Mills</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Phone Etiquette]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last quarter I posted (ranted) about my biggest cell phone pet peeve.
I have another one.
Why do people have to answer the phone EVERY time it rings?  Is it not your phone?  Your life?  Do you not have voice mail?  Why?  Why?  Why?
I have a cell phone.  It’s not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com&blog=222849&post=15&subd=pragmaticcommunication&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We can hear you.</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/we-can-hear-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stiles Mills</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Phone Etiquette]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why?
Why do people talk so loudly on cell phones?  Why do they think that it’s okay to talk on a cell phone anywhere?
There is a place and a time.
My biggest cell phone pet peeve?
People who talk on their cell phone at a restaurant table.
My husband and I disagree on this one, so the (forced) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com&blog=222849&post=14&subd=pragmaticcommunication&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>read from the outside in.</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/read-from-the-outside-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stiles Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to read all books chronologically.  Start on page one and move forward from there.  It worked.  It was . . . fine.
But last summer, I enrolled my son in a $300 speed reading course and the instructor was kind enough to let me sit in the back of the room [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com&blog=222849&post=17&subd=pragmaticcommunication&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>intention is irrelevant</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2006/02/23/intention-is-irrelevant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stiles Mills</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Competence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to reach through the television, take her hand, look her in the eye and sincerely apologize for this unfair truth.  She didn’t want to have to “choose her words” or be judged by them.  She wanted her intentions to be recognized.  She wanted her heart to be seen.  She [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com&blog=222849&post=16&subd=pragmaticcommunication&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Irregardless&#8221; is too a real word.  The spell checker didn&#8217;t pick it up!</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2004/01/18/irregardless-is-too-a-real-word-the-spell-checker-didnt-pick-it-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stiles Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regardless, Irregardless, Regardless, Irregardless, Regardless, Irregardless
Is it a real word or isn&#8217;t it?  Well . . . I don&#8217;t use it.  You decide for yourself.
&#8220;Irregardless&#8221; appears the heaviest and oldest dictionary I own, a 1967 Random House Dictionary of the English Language, The Unabridged Edition:
&#8220;Usage.  IRREGARDLESS is considered nonstandard because it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com&blog=222849&post=12&subd=pragmaticcommunication&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a little about yourself</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2003/10/29/9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stiles Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tell me a little about yourself.&#8221;
It’s a standard interview request.   An open invitation to dominate the conversation for at least one minute &#8211; give or take 15 seconds.  You’ve got a potential employer’s undivided attention.  A chance to call attention to the greatness that is YOU.
Do yourself a favor.  Take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com&blog=222849&post=9&subd=pragmaticcommunication&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>could of have</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2003/07/21/could-of-have/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stiles Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not again.
I’ve seen something.  Again.  It was in a paper turned in by a college student.
“You could of . . .”
Translated, that would be “You could have . . .”
How does this happen?
It’s actually common.  Very common.  I see it multiple times each a semester.  Points are lost.
So what are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com&blog=222849&post=7&subd=pragmaticcommunication&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Its It&#8217;s confusing!</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2003/04/08/its-its-confusing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stiles Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you provide computer training to attorneys people, you can&#39;t help but see things.  I recently saw something and am compelled to provide the following information.  I&#39;m not saying an attorney could be grammatically challenged &#8211; I&#39;m just providing the information &#8211; just as a reminder:
It&#39;s is a contraction for it is or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com&blog=222849&post=5&subd=pragmaticcommunication&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why bother?</title>
		<link>http://pragmaticcommunication.wordpress.com/2003/01/07/why-bother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stiles Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Subscribers to the Harvard Business Review rated &#8220;the ability to communicate&#8221; the most important factor in making an executive &#8220;promotable,&#8221; more important than ambition, education and capacity for hard work.&#8221;
        &#8220;What Helps or Harms Promotability?&#8221;
         Harvard Business Review 42
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