http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020415,39273376,00.htm

I wish I could send this to my customers, especially after receiving this gem:

Quote :

"Customer does many testing, and find the following problem for WS-X4515 cpu utilization with 12.2(25)EWA: 1. There is no any interface up, when WS-X4515 with 12.2(25)EWA becomes up, its cpu utilization is about 16%. If they uses 12.2(18)EW, cpu utilization is just 3%. 2. There is no any interface up, cpu utilization becomes higher if they insert more modules 3. cpu utilization becomes higher when up interface become more How can we explain the aboves?"

At first I assumed that this guy was foreign. But his name is Dan, and his area code puts him in Boston.

6/7/2006 10:23:05 AM

does he work for cisco?

because if he does, i'm going to push my resume

6/7/2006 10:29:58 AM

reading that gave me a headache

6/7/2006 10:30:43 AM

Maybe I SHOULD have applied there again

6/7/2006 10:32:46 AM

his name may be "Dan" and he may live in Boston, but his native language is definitely Engrish

6/7/2006 10:47:22 AM

DOES THIS LOOK STUPID?

6/7/2006 11:01:26 AM

Maybe he's writing it in AZN to make it easier on IBM and Dell's tech support team.

6/7/2006 11:08:43 AM

Quote :

"If they uses "

haha

that's the coolest mistake

6/7/2006 11:13:19 AM

This guy definitely does NOT work for Cisco. He's a customer I have the misfortune of working with.

6/7/2006 11:26:40 AM

Only ten? I have a much longer list.

6/7/2006 11:41:40 AM

I call BS.

There are no other possible grammar mistakes other than what are outlined in the referenced article!

6/7/2006 12:07:37 PM

People often wonder just what it is that English majors do once they graduate.

Mostly, they're hired by companies to hide the fact that the rest of the employees are functionally illiterate.

6/7/2006 12:51:09 PM

Hahahaha, most likely.

My two biggest pet peeves are who/whom and not using adverbs correctly.

6/7/2006 1:37:51 PM

I'll admit that who/whom usage is my achilles heel when it comes to grammar.

6/7/2006 1:45:35 PM

Oh, and when people say "quote" and seem to think it's a noun. I will never ever use it that way, even if dictionary.com allows it. QUOTATION OR BUST!

6/7/2006 1:49:06 PM

Eats, Shoots, and Leaves should be required college reading in order to recieve a diploma...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592402038/sr=8-2/qid=1149703026/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-4731044-9367317?%5Fencoding=UTF8

6/7/2006 1:58:02 PM

http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/150more.html
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html

6/7/2006 2:04:43 PM

here's the top 20:

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/smhandbook/pages/bcs-main.asp?v=&s=01000&n=00010&i=01010.01&o=

6/7/2006 3:51:04 PM

Quote :

"Eats, Shoots, and Leaves should be required college reading in order to recieve a diploma..."

If you're British. Some of the rules don't quite apply in the same ways to American English. But that's a great book, regardless.

6/7/2006 4:03:38 PM

Quote :

"At first I assumed that this guy was foreign. But his name is Dan, and his area code puts him in Boston."

You must have met foreigners at Cisco who pick an American sounding name to use at work because very few people can pronounce their real names.

6/7/2006 5:01:55 PM

you definately should have misspelled grammar on purpose


















like i just did with definitely. i bet you wanted to correct me.

6/7/2006 5:05:46 PM

Of course I did. But I already made a thread about that.

http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=411186

6/7/2006 5:13:43 PM

Some foreign workers with hard to pronounce names just adopt american names, this guy i work with goes by Shawn but his real name is Xia.

6/7/2006 6:09:28 PM

who/whom is easy. Use whom when it is an object and use who when it is a subject. Objects have things done to them, subjects do things.

6/7/2006 8:05:52 PM

Quote :

"Note: The term i.e. means "that is"; e.g. means "for example". And a comma follows both of them"

damn. i always thought i.e. stood for "in other words".

6/7/2006 9:35:59 PM

id est

exempli gratia

6/7/2006 9:38:55 PM

Quote :

"who/whom is easy. Use whom when it is an object and use who when it is a subject. Objects have things done to them, subjects do things."

Exactly- it's easy. So why don't more people use them correctly?!?!?!!?

6/7/2006 11:38:35 PM

What if you treat objects like women, man.

6/8/2006 12:05:57 PM

^^ In a regular sentence, I agree that it's easy (or, should be easy, at least). But sometimes it gets a little tricky in questions.
"To whom should I throw the ball?" isn't too tough as long as you put "to" at the beginning of the sentence.
But: "Who/whom gets the ball?" sounds like almost the exact same question, but the correct choice seems much harder to make.

Quote :

"here's the top 20: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/smhandbook/pages/bcs-main.asp?v=&s=01000&n=00010&i=01010.01&o= "

Looks good, but Rule #14 had something that tripped me:

Quote :

"Several indefinite pronouns (all, any, enough, more, most, none, some) can be singular or plural depending on the context in which they are used."

Maybe some of the real grammar nazis can clarify, but I thought that "none" was always singular. "None of the boys was ..." and "None of them was ..." Should those be "none were ..." ?

6/8/2006 12:52:04 PM

BobbyDigital, that dude is most definitely foreign. They often live in the states and take American names.

Numbers 4, 5, 7, 8 do not bother me at all.

#4: i.e. for e.g.
No: Use an anti-spyware program (i.e., Ad-Aware).
Yes: Use an anti-spyware program (e.g., Ad-Aware).
Note: The term i.e. means "that is"; e.g. means "for example". And a comma follows both of them.

#5: Effect for affect
No: The outage shouldn't effect any users during work hours.
Yes: The outage shouldn't affect any users during work hours.
Yes: The outage shouldn't have any effect on users.
Yes: We will effect several changes during the downtime.
Note: Impact is not a verb. Purists, at least, beg you to use affect instead:
No: The outage shouldn't impact any users during work hours.
Yes: The outage shouldn't affect any users during work hours.
Yes: The outage should have no impact on users during work hours.

#7: Different than for different from
No: This setup is different than the one at the main office.
Yes: This setup is different from the one at the main office.
Yes: This setup is better than the one at the main office.

#8 Lay for lie
No: I got dizzy and had to lay down.
Yes: I got dizzy and had to lie down.
Yes: Just lay those books over there.

[Edited on June 8, 2006 at 12:58 PM. Reason : sss]

6/8/2006 12:58:12 PM

I suppose it's possible that he changed his last name too. Let's just say it's on the same level of whitebread as "Williams"

Either way, debating his nationality is as important as splitting cunt hairs.

6/8/2006 1:34:47 PM

Quote :

"^^ In a regular sentence, I agree that it's easy (or, should be easy, at least). But sometimes it gets a little tricky in questions. "To whom should I throw the ball?" isn't too tough as long as you put "to" at the beginning of the sentence. But: "Who/whom gets the ball?" sounds like almost the exact same question, but the correct choice seems much harder to make. Maybe some of the real grammar nazis can clarify, but I thought that "none" was always singular. "None of the boys was ..." and "None of them was ..." Should those be "none were ..." ?"

Well in the second question about getting the ball, it's apparent that the ball is being given to someone, so I think whom is still correct. Most times you use the "to" for indirect objects (to whom something is given, etc). But whom can also be used to substitute for people as direct objects:
"Danny fucked whom?" In this case, the person is directly receiving the action of the verb instead of receiving an object.

None can be singular or plural as an indefinite pronoun.

Singular: None of the newspaper was wet. (none refers to the singular noun newspaper)
Plural: None of the children came to the meeting. (none refers to the plural noun children)

In conclusion, your two examples should stay as "was," since it's like saying "not one of the boys was ..."

[Edited on June 8, 2006 at 2:24 PM. Reason : .]

6/8/2006 2:06:21 PM

Boston.


that explains everything.

6/8/2006 2:25:34 PM

weird, this same thing was posted on our sas blog today

6/8/2006 5:28:04 PM