Friday, September 15, 2006
More fun with words
Me: "Which version of Windows do you have on your computer?"
Caller: "I don't know."
Me: "Alright, so we'll just need to find that out. I'll ask you to click on Start, then--"
Caller: "You'll have to bear with me. I'm not that computer illiterate."
I believe what this caller meant to say is more like "I'm not computer literate" or "I am computer illiterate", but in keeping with the general trend towards mangling English, they've gone and said the exact opposite. There are other key phrases that will tip me off that the person I'm dealing with might not be that savvy, but the main one is "yous guys", which does drive me crazy.
Caller: "Oops! I closed the window. Yous guys'll have to go slow, I'm kinda stupid."
Well, caller, I didn't say it.
Caller: "I don't know."
Me: "Alright, so we'll just need to find that out. I'll ask you to click on Start, then--"
Caller: "You'll have to bear with me. I'm not that computer illiterate."
I believe what this caller meant to say is more like "I'm not computer literate" or "I am computer illiterate", but in keeping with the general trend towards mangling English, they've gone and said the exact opposite. There are other key phrases that will tip me off that the person I'm dealing with might not be that savvy, but the main one is "yous guys", which does drive me crazy.
Caller: "Oops! I closed the window. Yous guys'll have to go slow, I'm kinda stupid."
Well, caller, I didn't say it.
# posted by Terry @ 7:09 AM 
