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Wednesday, December 08, 2004

What corporate America can't build: a sentence

What corporate America can't build: a sentence
Here is one from a systems analyst to her supervisor at a high-tech corporation based in Palo Alto, Calif.:

"I updated the Status report for the four discrepancies Lennie forward us via e-mail (they in Barry file).. to make sure my logic was correct It seems we provide Murray with incorrect information ... However after verifying controls on JBL - JBL has the indicator as B ???? - I wanted to make sure with the recent changes - I processed today - before Murray make the changes again on the mainframe to 'C'."
I'm actually appalled that someone wrote, proofed and sent a note with content like the above to someone else and hoped to be taken seriously.

I've run into the odd message from folks with content I dearly wanted to correct, but it's usually just folks asking statements or screwing up homonyms that we all learned in the 4th grade. I'm glad that I never received a message like the above, for I know I'd've been all over it!

I really am thinking of rejecting any mail if it's clearly a derived English - like my favourite, en_AOL - but I don't have time to learn how to fake Sendmail rejection messages!

Now if someone can tell me how to fix the spell-checker in this thing, so that it uses a more common dictionary instead of one only used by one minor English dialect, I'd be eternally grateful.

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