They're lots of crackpotty people. I'd be surprised to see linguists being any crazier than anyone else, but whatever.
That sounds less like a communications problem (which implies some kind of interference on both sides of the communication) and more like the coworker is being untruthful.
No, he cops to it if I ask it differently. I am willing to say the problem is entirely on his end, you just have to phrase questions so "yes" or something similarly simple and affirmative is not a valid answer. Or you'll get it. Always.
Oh, apparently the corpse is on the front page of gawker.
Took me a moment ... I thought, briefly, the corpse in question was the (or an) annoying co-worker.
Oh, apparently the corpse is on the front page of gawker.
Is this because we didn't get to see Bin Laden's corpse? So we're going overboard with the dead!Khadafy dealie? ("We" = "way too much of humanity," NOT "Buffistas.")
Okay, dude #1, I said that parameter was the CLIENT IP address. And the one in the gateway settings was the SERVER IP address. Stop conflating them.
Dude #2 (or dudette), I know you're new on the project, but you are seriously asking me the name of the company we're integrating with? It's the same as *name* of the project. It's every fifth word out of everyone's mouth. Some questions you do research on yourself, instead of asking them out loud.
Okay, whew, back to cutting and pasting from MX records.
I was stuck in the airport yesterday where CNN first broke the news and they kept showing the cell phone footage of his body on a loop. With the anchors pretty much trying to find new ways of saying there was footage, he was dead, but it was unconfirmed and oh look there's raw footage.
No, he cops to it if I ask it differently. I am willing to say the problem is entirely on his end, you just have to phrase questions so "yes" or something similarly simple and affirmative is not a valid answer. Or you'll get it. Always.
Oy! that would drive me bugfuck in a colleague.
I was listening to a news podcast on the way home and the discussion was that the people of Libya were so terrorized by him that they wanted to see the body to be sure he was dead. I get that impulse and perhaps the people of Libya should have access to this footage if they so desire.
I do question the newscasters in the country showing that crap on loop in a manner that resembles murder/corpse porn. For goodness sake, show it on the news with plenty of warnings once. Then be done with it. It should not show up EVERYWHERE. Most of the people in the US are not that interested in seeing dead bodies everywhere we turn.
I know, what a shocking statement given how many of us watch CSI/NCIS, but those are fictional dead people and special effects. We do not want to see the real thing.
In case anyone is still interested in the tale of a requested strip search at the Scrabble competition, Fatsis at Slate has a good rundown of what all happened.
The basic facts seem to be the same, but he does provide a lot of context. I think I now know more about Scrabble competitions than I perhaps wanted to, but oh well.
