"Great Britain and the United States are two nations separated by a common
language." - George Bernard Shaw
-----Original Message-----
Rachel Carmichael
Sent: 04 October 2003 01:19
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
sorry Jared, I have to tell this story on myself:
at UKOUG in '99, I did a presentation on 24x7 options. I was being very
professional so I was standing in front of the room wearing a skirt,
instead of pants.
I said to the room "being a paranoid DBA, I tend to want to wear a
belt, have elastic in my waistband and wear suspenders"
silence..........
and then I realized that what Americans call suspenders the British
call braces and what I had said translated into Americanese as "garter
belt"
I got a LOT of interested looks during the remainder of that
presentation.
- Govindan K <gkatteri_at_omanmail.com> wrote:
>
> >when I went to the admin who had the keys of the stationary and
> asked
> her for a
> >"rubber", instead of "eraser". In the English language they taught
> me
> >at school, that little rubbery implement used to erase what someone
> >has written down was known as "rubber". I was extremely annoyed by
> her
> reaction
>
> Here is a short list of confusions i have observed so far
> rubber --> eraser
> cover --> envelope
> 2nd signal on the road --> 2nd light on the road
> Best (or worst?) dd/mm/yy --> mm/dd/yy
> switch (off is down, on is up)
> petrol pump --> gas station
>
> I too have gone crazy on a number of occasions.
>
> For an longer list, please mail me off the list.
>
> <-----Original Message----->
>
> From: Mladen Gogala
> Sent: 10/3/2003 1:02:39 PM
> To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 15:29, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
>
> > The manager feels awkward in being forced to hire an expert in an
> area
> > he/she knows nothing about. Tries to make suggestions in order to
> flush out
> > whether this "expert" really knows anything.
>
> And you call a guy who makes suggestions about something
> he knows nothing about "inexperienced"? Nice euphemism,
> sort of reminds me on my 1st working day in US, when I went
> to the admin who had the keys of the stationary (and she was a
> young and attractive female, which is important for the further
> story development) and asked her for a "rubber", instead of "eraser".
>
> In the English language they taught me at school, that little rubbery
>
> implement used to erase what someone has written down was known as
> "rubber". I was extremely annoyed by her reaction (she was actually
> shocked and started speaking very fast, so that the only words I
> was able to discern were "sexual harassment") and I didn't think much
>
> of her, to say the least. Today I dread to even think what did she
> think
> of me.
> A DBA manager who doesn't know anything of a database is,
> essentially,
> in the very same position as a big east European klutz in desperate
> need
> of office stuff. Inexperienced isn't the word I'd use to describe
> him.
>
>
>
>
>
> Author: Mladen Gogala
> INET: mladen_at_wangtrading.com
>
> .
>
>
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