“If your single, so am I” tee from Wet Seal simply reprints how so many people write these days. I don’t know how it happened, but at some point “you are” or “you’re” became “your.” I guess so many people did not want to take the trouble of pressing one extra key during instant messages and tweets.
So while Japlish has been around a while, should we call this Ameriglish?
Just to have the opportunity to be invited to Davos, you must be invited to be a member of the World Economic Forum, a Swiss nonprofit that was founded by Klaus Schwab, a German-born academic who managed to build a global conference in the snow.
There are several levels of membership: the basic level, which will get you one invitation to Davos, costs 50,000 Swiss francs, or about $52,000. The ticket itself is another 18,000 Swiss francs ($19,000), plus tax, bringing the total cost of membership and entrance fee to $71,000.
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And if like a Fortune 500 company, you want to bring an entourage, the article estimates the total cost of just tickets and all over $600K. And of course you don’t travel to Davos coach. Based on where you are and how you want to travel, how many folks you entertain and how, the cost to attend maybe in millions.
Still Davos maybe one conference worth attending because it simply cannot be substituted by online networking.
Andrew Ross Sorkin: A Hefty Price for Entry to Davos - NYTimes.com
