Archive for the ‘Manners’ Category
Bernard Salt & John Elliott On The Same Manners Page
In my congratulations article yesterday, I fully supported Bernard Salt, the well known Melbourne Demographer and KPMG Partner, on his manners article in last weekend’s Australian property supplement. It was pleasing to see a younger executive than me getting stuck into the sliding manners standards of the next generation. This trend can only be contained [...]
John Elliott Applauds Ita Buttrose’s New Manners Book
I congratulate Ita Buttrose on releasing a long overdue book on manners and etiquette including a comprehensive critical assessment of Australian’s decision to totally disregard and ignore good manners in the public, private and business arenas, but where more people tend to act in their own self interest. Ita would not have written such a detailed book [...]
Ties Maketh The Man – JDE Lets His Thoughts Be Known
John Elliott criticises deterioration in Melbourne mens dress code. Technology for this recording has been provided by www.videolinkinternational.com
Using Proper English – Even more gripes and groans
Thank you Luke for your excellent contribution; you’re not a bad pilot either. Shirley Green has a real bee in her bonnet about the use of slang, such as ‘servo’ for service station, in newspaper reporting, specifically the Adelaide Advertiser. We’re all proud of the ability of Australians (Aussies) to modify and abbreviate words and [...]
MANNERS MAKES THE NINE NEWS!
View video featuring JDE on the Channel News and article in the The Australian newspaper.
