http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/ The Business English Special Interest Group discussion list Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:50:34 GMT Natasha Katenbrink http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4069 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4069 Hi Duncan, Do you have an invitation you can give me? I have been trying to get one for ages. Thanks, Natasha Katenbrink ... [Non-text portions of this message Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:51:29 GMT Martin Bradbeer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4068 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4068 There is another dictionary, published by the Bauverlag, called Wörterbuch für Architektur, Hochbau und Baustoffe that would fit the bill. It comes in two Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:42 GMT Marjorie Rosenberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4067 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4067 A really useful dictionary in general is the visual one "Bildwörterbuch" from Pons / Klett. It is rather large however, but he might find some pages helpful Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:58:25 GMT Duncan Baker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4066 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4066 Now on the wave at lydbury@... Please join in if you have a wave account. Duncan -- Join our newsletter mailing list: http://news.lydbury.co.uk Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:57:55 GMT Kay von Randow http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4065 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4065 Hi, I have a student who directs shopfitting contracts ( mainly interiors ) in and around Germany ie. he draws-up the plans, negotiates, hires the Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:55:07 GMT Eileen Küpper http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4064 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4064 Hi Eric, I would recommend jpeebles@... you can register here for the ESL / EFL Job Finder Subscriber a weekly source for up to the minute Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:42:07 GMT Eric Baber http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4063 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4063 Hi all, A friend of mine is interested in teaching in Cuba (not necessarily business English, just English in general). He's done general Google searches etc Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:19:21 GMT Karenne Sylvester http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4062 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4062 Aaaargh, the glory of the ever-changing and dynamic English language, LOL - c u soon. K Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:18:42 GMT Karenne Sylvester http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4061 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4061 Forgot to add the obvious... Please forward on this message on to colleagues who're also going, other yahoo!groups, post up on your facebook wall etc - so Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:03:29 GMT Natasha Jovanovich http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4060 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4060 Hello Karenne I like these newly coined words : meet-ups, coffee-ups and preconference dinner drink-ups The taste of it sound even better :) Will make it into Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:13:04 GMT Karenne Sylvester http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4059 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4059 Hi all, Re Duncan and Eric's posts above - please do come along and join our temporary pre-conference social networking site! http://besig09sneetup.ning.com/ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:20 GMT Eric Baber http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4058 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4058 ... I don't *think* so. The Twitter list pulls together people who are already Twittering. I know what you mean and share your concerns about fragmenting Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:41:14 GMT Duncan Baker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4057 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4057 Thank Eric - but does that not mean that we now have yet another another disparate forum? I am not saying that is a bad thing but, maybe, we need to Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:33:56 GMT Eric Baber http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4056 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4056 Hi all, Those of you who use Twitter may be familiar with the new "Lists" feature. It effectively allows any Twitter user to create groups of other Twitter Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:27:30 GMT Duncan Baker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4055 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/besig/message/4055 Dear All, We are still getting requests from people who have missed the application deadline for the BESIG conference in Poznan 20-22 November. Those very nice