Successful Investors Have Learned To Talk Their Walk!

By Ben Tomas


Today, English is the most generally written and spoken language in the world. English was first spoken in the United Kingdom by Germanic tribes in the 5th Century AD. At that point it was called the Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) period. In the Middle English period ( 1150-1500 AD ), many Old English word endings were replaced by prepositions like by, with, and from. We are at present in the Modern English period which started in the Sixteenth Century.

The number of words in English has grown from 50,000 to 60,000 words in Old English to about a million today; the largest of all languages by far. An average educated person knows about 20,000 words and uses only about 2,000 words in a week. Despite its widespread use, there are only about 350 million people who use it as their mother tongue.

It is the official language of the Olympics. More than half of the world's technical and scientific periodicals as well three quarters of the world's mail, and its telexes and cables are in English. About 80% of the information stored in the world's computers (like this text) are also in English. English is transmitted to more than 100 million people everyday by 5 of the largest broadcasting companies (CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, CBC). It seems like English will remain the most widely used language for some time.

The sphere of finance was pioneered by the USA as an extension of mercantilism. This was at a point in time when study of anything apart from economics was considered undeserving in comparison to hard sciences like maths, chemistry and physic and kissing up in the king's court was highly rated. The 1st business faculties were established in the United States because of this and still maintain their dominion. Finance has many words like put and call for which there aren't any translations in other languages.

It's vital that you develop your monetary vocabulary. My experience of the money vocabulary is huge compared against the average joe due to my Ph.D. That I hold in the field as well as my investing experience as a futures and option trader and long term stock financier.

Many years of study at the doctoral level mixed with direct practice in investments has permitted me to develop an enormous financial vocabulary. This enables me to capture the basis of investment readings and talks that the regular person doesn't understand. Many backers fail not for absence of intelligence ( I'm of average intelligence ) but shortage of understanding of what makes the market tick. This is due, in great part, to a dearth of vocabulary the common man in the street hasn't developed. Take some time to develop your fiscal vocabulary and you'll excel over time as a stockholder!




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