At our economics society meeting tonight, we began talking about employers. As an officer, I asked people which kinds of employers they would like to meet. I threw out "economic consulting firms" as a possibility, to which one Asian guy responded:

"No way. No way in hell. They're a bunch of racists."
I then heard the most brilliant piece of ( Read more... )

After watching a documentary on American accents a few days ago, I've developed a heightened awareness of regional linguistic subtleties. Everyone knows that there is "Northern" and "Southern" American English, but it is much more nuanced and localized than that, hence my newest hobby: obliterating all traces of the Californian dialect from my ( Read more... )