On May 12, 2017 6:15:05 PM GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 12/05/2017 09:37, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On May 11, 2017 11:20:49 AM GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon ><alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 11/05/2017 02:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>>> On Wednesday 10 May 2017 23:33:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>>> >>>>> I you read -dev, you could have replied to the original with a >>> correct >>>>> fix :-) >>>> >>>> No good. I can't read C. I gave up in the '80s and reverted to >>> assembler. >>>> >>>>> The author isn't English mother-tongue btw [1] >>>> >>>> Maybe not, but he's only following what the typical American is >>> doing. >>>> >>>>>> (By way of explanation, 35 years ago I was made the documentation >>>>>> manager of a 200-man-year software project. Ever since then I've >>> been >>>>>> unable to read anything at all without the eye of an editor - >it's >>>>>> ruined my enjoyment of everything I read. There's no hope any >>> longer.) >>>>> >>>>> Oh noes. So you can't enjoy Pratchett? poor, poor you <shudder> >:-) >>>> >>>> Sadness. >>>> >>>>> [1] Living in a country with 11 (yes, eleven!) official languages, >>> all >>>>> considered legally valid for purposes of government with equal >>> status, I >>>>> had to let go of English bias and accept that languages get >mangled. >>> All >>>>> the time. >>>> >>>> I sympathise. I couldn't live in a place like that. >>>> >>>>> Except for this new meaning for "revert". can't bring myself to >>> accept >>>>> that one, too much like gouging out eyeballs with a blunt spoon. >>>> >>>> Eh? What meaning is that? I seem to have missed it. >>>> >>> >>> In Africa, "revert" has become synonymous with "reply". >>> >>> Causes no end of confusion when the firewall admin replies to a >ticket >>> saying he'll do it and revert. >> >> I'd be complaining about someone like that the whole time. >> "Why the *beep* will you revert all changes before we can even test >them? You *beeeeeep*" > >True story: > >I used to do exactly that, then got into horrible trouble with HR, and >disciplinary hearing and $DEITY knows what else. > >Turned out one of the fellows I called a *beeeeeep* was the CEO of our >subsidiary in Ghana
Hehe.... Which language has 'revert' and 'reply' being the same word? Personally, I'd challenge HR for allowing people with such an obvious lack of education into the company. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
