Reply to: The best of Bob 'quotes' thread

[lightng]

An ex-colleague of mine recently had one IT department of his in-sourced (if that's the word) back to the north-east office . He said it took him a good four years to understand the quirks and cadence of indian-english and was expecting about the same amount of time to adjust to geordie-english.

Apologies to any geordies out there

[Sysman]

Received only a couple of weeks back

"Sorry for the incontinence".

How appropriate

[mudskipper]

"Is working fine. Hence not a defect" is one I encountered often. It lead to many arguments (I think they thought they could outfox me - they were wrong).

Not arguments, discussions. Usually resulting in a CR. And swearing.

[rhubarb]

Received only a couple of weeks back

"Sorry for the incontinence".

[Zippy]

"Is working fine. Hence not a defect" is one I encountered often. It lead to many arguments (I think they thought they could outfox me - they were wrong).

[MaryPoppins]

you sure?
I thought that meant this week

'next to next week' does seem to mean the week after next. It kind of makes sense when you think about it. Ish.

[MaryPoppins]

I'm not sure there is such a language as Indian? Aren't there about 30 odd languages/dialects to choose from?

edit: having said that though MP, I do agree with your sentiments.

Ha. I know, I just assumed this thread was dedicated to 'em all.

[mudskipper]

Namaste,

Please provide inputs

Is working fine. Hence not a defect.

Require to verify.

Awaiting updation.

[shaunbhoy]

You should hear my french. I have mastered it to "choosing from the menu" level,

....and to my embarrassment I am always replied to in English

Whilst I was stationed in Germany, I took the trouble to try and learn the lingo. I got to the stage where they would reply to me in German. Trouble was, I often had no idea what they had said.

[Clippy]

Was in a Change Advisory telecon once where we were informed by Bob that the server upgradation at the weekend was successful.

[CheeseSlice]

you sure?
I thought that meant this week

Or maybe you've been over-delivering?

[Spacecadet]

'Next to next week', meaning the week after the next.

you sure?
I thought that meant this week

[CheeseSlice]

From time to time I work in a foreign language though and can imagine the mistakes I make being far worse than those that I see from Bob

You should hear my french. I have mastered it to "choosing from the menu" level,

....and to my embarrassment I am always replied to in English

[northernladuk]

It's not just Indian english. I work with a Ukrainian off shore dev team.

If they have a query it usually is in the form

"So let us explore few scenarios, blah blah bla a) blah blah blah b) blah blah blah c)
Please confirm which variant"

I find it indearing

LOL The irony

[bf2]

'Next to next week', meaning the week after the next.