Forgive me. This is a real stretch for the topic, but it is "words," and it does fry my brain. "Due to unusually heavy call volume, you may experience a longer wait."
Some businesses ALWAYS play this message when you call in. I think what it really is saying is, one of our CS people called in sick, so the other one is really, really busy!
And if I may have one more along these lines, "Please listen, as our options have changed." Oh yeah? Ten years ago, maybe!
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cekkk wrote: Forgive me. This is a real stretch for the topic, but it is "words," and it does fry my brain. "Due to unusually heavy call volume, you may experience a longer wait."
Some businesses ALWAYS play this message when you call in. I think what it really is saying is, one of our CS people called in sick, so the other one is really, really busy!
And if I may have one more along these lines, "Please listen, as our options have changed." Oh yeah? Ten years ago, maybe!
yeah, like we knew...how about the heavily accented announcement;"may be recorded for training porpoises"...I didn't know that either.
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Tengo (internet) is NOT TANGO. My GF insists on pronouncing it this way, and no amount of joking will stop her. Evidently it's designed to drive me crazy.
I was listening to NPR the other day. I always thought Warren Olney was the KING of "UH" until I heard the college professor he was interviewing. It seemed like every other word was "UH" or "UMM". "It, uh, seems, uh, that, well, uh, I don't, uh, know...."!
These are supposedly people who get paid for talking! Paid quite well, too, I imagine!
SAD, that's all, just SAD!
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What has Grainger's Catalog proof reader "wrought"? Grainger Catalog #402, p.4021
I have seen the same "wrot" spelling when Googling "wrot fittings"
but I suspect it's an "error" that's becoming part of the English Language--something like the improvised word, "conversate".
Edit: added last paragraph.
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