Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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lost in translationmy other half and I used to work for a translation agency which was a sort of forgotten-about backwater office belonging to a well-known multinational corporation (the big red X company)
she heard this exchange one day between two senior managers (the thick one having worked in the translation industry for some years)
"Can we get this translated into Mumbai?"
"Into what? Mumbai?"
"Yes - do we know anyone who speaks it?"
"Umm - Mumbai isn't a language - it's a city in India"
"Oh...well - can we get it translated into Indian?"
"..."
the manager in question has since been promoted at least twice
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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 19:24,
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probably meantMarathi, although I suspect Hindi is still more widely understood in Mumbai. Possibly had an idea of Bambaiya, although this is not exactly a literary language.
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 4:00,
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