Type your own in the url…

When you click “accept” by accident in spellcheck

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Friendly reminder that QA tools are supposed to be helpful, not make me spend ages justifying myself as if I don’t know what I’m doing and a piece of software is somehow a better linguist than me.

“Who even needs translators, WE’LL SHOW YOU!!!”

(Disclaimer: I haven’t read the original piece because I wouldn’t touch The Sun with a ten-foot pole)

Tags: brexit fail

When the client uses memes in their instructions

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When you find an error in a locked segment and you realise it was you who wrote it in 2011

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Really straightforward text but in a tool that thinks it’s from NASA

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‘Client X came back.’
'Client Y came back.’
Jesus is about to come back.
Everyone comes back.
Everyone, except my youth.

Going to comment in the query portal for ALL the language teams and feeling like a Eurovision presenter. Hand me my sequins, I’m about to shout ‘GOOD EVENING, EUROPE!

just-shower-thoughts:

Learning a new language is like downloading an expansion pack to your brain that allows you to interact with new characters from different lands.

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