Saturday, October 25, 2008

How not to say I f*%^d up

Well, we all have screwed something some time or other.

But, dont you love when people use extremely convoluted language to avoid admitting directly they f**d it up!

Take this sentence for example - "Employees said they felt that in order to effectively perform their official duties, they needed to interact in social settings with industry representatives to obtain 'market intelligence'". Does it sound like "Instead of supervising oil compnaies, government official were having sex with prostitutes sent by the companies."? At least I didnt think so.

Another one - how to translate 4 words (I didnt understand it) to something undecipherable jargon - "I found a flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works.". This is Alan Greenspan speaking.

I hope to find more such goofs to add here. Keep tuned in.

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