
Godwin's Lawyer tells us: "I once worked with a lad who believed 'Frankenstein' was based on a true story, and that the book was written by Shirley Bassey." Tell us about your workplace dopes.
( , Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:34)
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This is a memorandum to remind those who wish to write English business correspondence to offshore programming teams that the opposite of the English word "increment" is not "excrement". Please make a note of it.
Thanks awfully,
( , Wed 9 Mar 2011, 1:58, 13 replies)

( , Wed 9 Mar 2011, 2:02, closed)

but then he probably doesn't want to send Japanese business correspondence to offshore programming teams.
( , Wed 9 Mar 2011, 7:23, closed)

It's not stupidity. It may have been funny when it was first posted on Engrish.com back in the 90's though.
( , Wed 9 Mar 2011, 22:34, closed)

I was talking to a German friend about engineering a couple of months ago, and he started telling me about the first ship to circumcise the Earth.
( , Wed 9 Mar 2011, 8:58, closed)

But your colleagues are hardly stupid when they know enough about a completely foreign language and its rules that they can make a good guess at the oposite of "increment". Heck, I bet only 50% of the population of England could tell you that with any authority.
I'm also not sure now that the oposite of an increment is a decrement.
( , Wed 9 Mar 2011, 18:08, closed)

and
"Install new red hot lovers" instead of "redwood louvres"
( , Wed 9 Mar 2011, 22:21, closed)
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