<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">"Walk the walk" is common usage, I think, but MIT has been using the "walk the talk" slogan for at least a couple of years, and I think it certainly works. I guess it's a sort of play on the more conventional version.<div>So it depends who the listener is. On campus, I think walk the talk is well accepted. For the outside world, it might be confusing.</div><div><br></div><div>David<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">-------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">David L. Chandler</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">science writer</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">MIT News Office</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">room 11-400</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">(617) 253-2704</font></div><p></p></div></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jul 31, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Eve Sullivan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>hello fellow editors and editorial assistants,<br><br>reading the spotlight on our homepage this morning<br><br><a href="http://web.mit.edu">http://web.mit.edu</a><br><br>. . . In addition to the new commuting options, MIT is hiring a <br>commuting coordinator who will develop, implement and maintain a <br>top-tier commuter services program in keeping with the Institute's <br>stated goal of "walking the talk" on energy and the environment. <br>Working closely with community members, the coordinator will set up a <br>feedback channel for new ideas and suggestions. . . .<br><br>i wondered about the phrase 'walking the talk.' i thought<br>that the correct phrase is 'walking the walk' ...as in 'all he<br>does is talk the talk: he doesn't walk the walk.'<br><br>what do you hear, say, read and/or write, esteemed colleagues?<br><br>eve sullivan<br>_______________________________________________<br>Editors mailing list<br>Editors@mit.edu<br>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/editors<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>