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Speak English!
Have you noticed how the corporate types always persist in talking like an interactive thesaurus instead of everyday English? This is a real email reply given to me recently about a demo of a log analyzer program:

"We offer a full consulting services in pre-sales support to accelerate your productivity in facilitating the evaluation process."

Err...so in plain English then:

"We offer full information and advice about our products before and during you trial."

I'm not particularly impressed by this and actually think such wording can be intimidating to non business types. I wonder if he speaks like this to his wife and children when he gets home!

~ ERASER


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Re: [Eraser] Speak English! In reply to
Beware of the suit!

Read through some of these search results for a bit of fun on so called marketing droids.

http://www.google.com/...mpliance&spell=1

- wil
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Re: [Eraser] Speak English! In reply to
That is their way of trying to prove to you that they know what they are talking about, which often means they don't Smile
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Re: [Paul] Speak English! In reply to
Laugh http://www.engrish.com Laugh

openoffice + gimp + sketch ... Smile
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Re: [QooQ] Speak English! In reply to
Even more fun:

http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
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Re: [Watts] Speak English! In reply to
hmmm, that's a useful site. Don't need to think up any more copy write material.

@ "We offer a full consulting services in pre-sales support to accelerate your productivity in facilitating the evaluation process."

Actually, that level isn't probably much higher than 5th grade of elementary school. I was teaching a lesson today to a 5th grader and her text was actually a bit more difficult. ughhh

openoffice + gimp + sketch ... Smile