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Author Craft / Re: Show the Best of your Worst Writing
« on: August 11, 2007, 11:26:03 PM »
Quote from: Mickey Finn on August 10, 2007, 09:46:07 PM
I outsourced to India:

I stared at the email from my tech support desk, and the message it contained: "Please do the needful."  Was this a matter of bad translation, or a request to perform certain...favours...on the impoverished?
I shudder to think what someone over there who took the same English course might do if they were also a hacker..."P13z do teh N33d4...." The mind boggles.

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Ok, I suck at this.
But hey...it was a true story.

Ha!  If I had a dime for every time I have been told to "Please do the needful" I'd be a very rich woman indeed.  ;)

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Author Craft / Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« on: August 01, 2007, 08:19:52 PM »
I've lurked on the board for awhile and just registered today. 

This idea is an excellent one.  The part about pushing people is key, I think.  As my career as a computer engineer progresses, I find myself writing technical documents, training materials and SOP manuals - and nothing else.  I was an English major, back in the day, and somehow I seem to have lost all the creative writing I used to do.  It feels like it's been so long since I tried to actually create something that I'm not sure I remember how.  It's sad, truly.

Good on you for putting this together, sir.

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