language, um, barrier
Mar. 18th, 2004 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayYesterday afternoon I attended a contractor demo for the FAA, about web-accessible flight obstacle databases and automated chart/map generation. The demo was fine... but one of the engineers spoke with a thick Indian-subcontinental accent. Again, no problem, my Ph.D. advisor was an immigrant... but this fellow seemed to have some problems with similar-sounding words. Such as three times saying "data suppository" instead of "data repository"...
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Date: 2004-03-18 03:51 pm (UTC)And this does bring up one of Akien's favorite Indian-accent tales. Not a sound-alike, but a word construction error. After having talked for a while about a particular project, the fellow was discussing what would happen afterwards. He said it was the "post-cursor" to the project. :^D Hey, it's logical, after all! If you can have a precursor, you can obviously have a post-cursor, right???
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