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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. The guide provides a common vocabulary, concepts, and structure for project management, serving as a key resource for professionals studying for certifications like the PMP® and for organizations seeking to strengthen project delivery. #### How is AI changing project management? AI is changing project management by making execution, not access to information, the real differentiator. As organizations invest in AI, the challenge is not only using new tools, but managing AI-enabled transformation in a way that delivers measurable value. Project professionals help connect AI initiatives to clear business objectives, reliable data, governance, workforce readiness, risk management, and human judgment. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. The PMP is for experienced project managers and requires a combination of formal education and years of documented project leadership experience, making it a more advanced and globally recognized certification. #### How does PMI support social impact? PMI supports social impact by helping individuals, nonprofits, NGOs, and communities use project management to turn purpose into measurable outcomes. Through the PMI Educational Foundation, PMI expands access to project management education for youth worldwide, including underserved and underrepresented populations. Through Project Managers Without Borders, PMI connects chapters and volunteers with nonprofits and NGOs that need project management expertise to strengthen the effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability of social initiatives. 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He wants books which will win scholarly praise. In Lancelot Hogben’s Mathematics for the Million he had a best-seller (200,000 copies) which won the praise of such mathematicians as Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell. Last fortnight he published a Hogben-edited book which is equally scholarly and fit for laymen. It seeks to explain the evolution, anatomy, functioning, diseases and future of language. The Loom of Language (W. W. Norton; $3.75) contains 692 pages of Swiss Philologist Frederick Bodmer’s solid lore about meaningful human noise, enlivened by bright pictures and the “irresponsible or facetious remarks” of Editor Hogben, a former colleague of Bodmer at the University of Cape Town. The Loom is lively, but no cinch to read. Hogben recommends an old-fashioned as a preliminary. Interglossa. A chapter on the evolution of the alphabet opens the book; a section on the need for an international auxiliary language closes it. Author Bodmer reviews the efforts to create such an auxiliary, beginning in 1661, when Aberdeen’s George Dalgarno invented his Universal Character and Philosophical Language. He comes down to Basic English and its current competitors (Iret, Swensen, Aiken), in all of which Bodmer sees virtues. But he does not share Winston Churchill’s complete enthusiasm for Basic. He favors a synthetic interlanguage rather than a simplified ethnic one. He and Hogben have drafted one which might be called Hogbod: Hogben calls it Interglossa and recently published a Penguin paperbook about it in England.\* It has about 3,000 words, largely of Latin and Greek roots, and a simple syntax on the Chinese style. Intelligent high-school graduates, says Bodmer, might learn to write and speak it in far less time than is required to master English, French or German. But The Loom’s great interest for most readers lies not in its highly colored plans or prophecies, but in its homely texture of facts about language. Samples: ¶ “… old-fashioned pedagogues objected to that’s me or it’s him, because grammarians said that the pronoun after am or is also stands for the subject itself. They overlooked the fact that the authorized version of the Bible (Matthew 16:13) contains the question: ‘Whom say ye that I am?’ ” ¶ “Some pedants who have forgotten their Bible lessons in Sunday school object to night starvation, iceman, sex appeal . . . without realizing that they follow such impressive leadership as the Knight Templar, Gladstone bag . . . Lady Mother. … What is specially characteristic of Anglo-American is the large and growing group of words which can be verbs, nouns or adjectives. . . .” Water is a good example. ¶ “Anglo-American has its own peculiar roundabout method of interrogation. We no longer say: sayest thou? The modern form of the question is: do you say? . . . In a few years no one will object to did he ought? . . .” ¶ “The vagaries of German word order are not a sufficient reason for the vast gulf between the language which Germans use in the home and the jargon which German scholars write. Accepted standards of such scholarly composition are also the product of a social tradition hostile to the democratic way of life. Intellectual arrogance necessarily fosters long-winded exposition. . . .”\* ¶ “Those who have been brought up to speak the Anglo-American language have one great linguistic advantage. Their word equipment makes it equally easy for them to take up the study of any Teutonic or any Romance language with a background of familiar associations, because modern English is a hybrid language.” ¶ “It is a commonplace that Russian collectivism originated in a country which was in a backward phase of technical and political evolution. It is also, and conspicuously, true that it originated in a country which was in a backward phase of linguistic evolution. . . . There is no royal road to fluency in a language which shares the grammatical intricacies of Sanskrit, Lithuanian, or Russian. It is therefore impossible to give the reader who wishes to learn Russian any good advice except to take the precaution of being born and brought up in Russia. . . . Shortcomings of the Russian language . . . signify . . . the existence of a powerful social obstacle to cultural relations between the Soviet Union and other countries. . . .” The Author. Frederick Bodmer is a 50-year-old Zurich University Ph.D. He was once a London correspondent for Swiss newspapers, then spent eleven years on Cape Town University’s faculty. Communication troubles between South Africa’s speakers of English and Afrikaans led him to think about an interlanguage. Later he and Hogben did some motorized pub-crawling from Aberdeen to London and back, planned The Loom between drinks. Bodmer wrote the book in Hogben’s Highland croft, is now working on another book in London’s intellectual Bloomsbury. \*First clause of the Atlantic Charter in Interglossa: U President deUnited States syn duco Commissari-pe, Mr. Churchill, ge electio e regiCrati de United Kingdom, pre acte unio. In English: “The President of theUnited States and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill representing H.M.Government in the United Kingdom, being met together. . . .”\*A Loom example of German word order: “These by Th. Nöldeke, History of the Koran, Göttingen, 1860, for the first time put forward basic views on the language of the Koran are in K. Voller’s Spoken and Written Language in Ancient Arabia, Strasbourg, 1906, by the wrong assumption, that the variant readings of the later Koran scholars, instead of \[being\] peculiarities of different dialects, rather only those of the original Koran language reflected, exaggerated, and distorted.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6598939/education-anatomy-of-lingo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6598939/education-anatomy-of-lingo/"},"headline":"Education: Anatomy of Lingo","datePublished":"1944-04-10T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T03:17:51.190Z","description":"Manhattan Publisher William Warder Norton rarely wears a hat, rarely publishes fiction. He wants books which will win scholarly praise. 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