by cityworks | Jul 17, 2012 | Word Distinction
Great question and one we jump right into in our kick-off post to distinguish important words – starting with weather and climate. When it comes to “climate” and “weather,” we often use the same words to describe them. Lovely. Harsh....
by cityworks | Jul 20, 2012 | Word Distinction
When it comes to climate change, one of the frustrations that experts routinely voice is that the concept sometimes gets lost in translation. That’s not all surprising. Climate change is complex science, after all, and the topic is still relatively new to those of us...
by cityworks | Jul 23, 2012 | Word Distinction, Commentary
Last week’s blog topic on word distinction featured the difference between “weather” and “climate” and this week we move to “smart” and “intelligent.” Again, they are two words that seem similar – almost interchangeable – but are they? Today, we run into these words...
by cityworks | Jul 26, 2012 | Word Distinction, Commentary
As we learned in our first part of the introduction in word distinction between “smart” and “intelligent,” there is indeed a difference between the two words, according to many experts. Smart is using knowledge we’ve gained in a, well, smart fashion. Intelligence is...
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