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I'm in I.T. and I'm so used crap like this both in responses to RFTs and in general documentation. However, what I find really annoying are log file messages with typos. Once you've programmed a typo into a log message it's repeated over and over again for the life of the product. Drives me bonkers.
Having said that though, there are some language idiosyncrasies that I find cute. I work with many Indians (yep I.T.) and there are a couple of expressions that are used that make me smile. My favourite would be "do the needful" and I like the insistence of reminders being "gentle". I wouldn't necessarily change these Indianisms though as they have a real charm to them. |
07-13-2012, 12:46 AM | #17 |
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There was an actual news story posted about at another message board I'm a member of not long ago and the writer of the article had made some big blunders.
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The words were spelled right but they were the wrong words.
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07-13-2012, 10:36 AM | #18 |
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I do that every so often as well. But stuff like that usually only survives the rough draft. It rarely makes it out of later edits. BTW, I love the word choices for that sentence. It made me laugh.
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I might be throwing stones in a glass house as I'm dyslexic and can make any gammar nazi cry but here's a good one:
Years ago there was a protest about affordable housing in the downtown east side of Vancouver with many people camping out to make their point. The banner they sat under said: The poor are revolting. Yes, we need to fix Canadain education too. Have fun, Jan Tailor |
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It reads as though it was translated into english from chinese. Perhaps it was outsourced.
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I worked for many years in the UK's nuclear power industry, and we used to regularly get protesters outside our site. One particular protest group, who used to turn up on quite a regular basis, always amused me because they had a large sign that said on it "WIMMIN AGAINST NUKES" .
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Sometimes the improvements cause more problems than anything else too. I remember reading about how a lot of the errors in the LOTR came about. The publishers would change spelling on words because they assumed that Prof. Tolkien had misspelled the word. We're still paying for that blunder today I believe.
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The profs you mention sound a lot like the Practical MCSE's we had, whereas the lady I mentioned was the literary equivalent of a Paper MCSE. |
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Touche, but I meant things like dwarfs for dwarves and so forth rather than elvish script.
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I so much do not want to dig my tengwar, quenya and sindarin reference material out now
But nevertheless there are cases where misinformation may lead to unwanted corrections. E.g. I the dwarven inscription on the map in the Hobbit (The one written in futhork) as well as its translation in the book, says: " stand by the grey stone hwen..." If one happens not to know that it's correct for archaic English - as I didn't - you end up thinking it's a mistake. |
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Yeah, can you imagine trying to be the editor/proofreader for the Lord of the Rings? You'd have to be as canny as Tolkien himself...
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