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Monday, September 20, 2004
THE ART OF COMMUNAMACTION -
Or, Well What I Meant To Say . . .
We all make mistakes, you know, little typo’s when we are in a rush and our mind is going in one direction and our fingers in another. However, I am currently in a business relationship with a person who can take this ‘human frailty’ to a new high on occasion. Just talking to this person one would never guess that he is afflicted with the little known disease, ‘dyslexic phalangeitis’, a rare condition where the connection between the brain and the fingers is more confused than a Hollywood actor trying to answer a ‘Final Jeopardy’ question.
This business partner has a very sharp mind and thinks in a ‘big picture’ sort of way. However, this does not seem to translate to the written word. We usually get a kick out of his emails and try and avoid having him write too many to customers, etc, which will become obvious in a short while. In an email communication on this date, this particular partner wanted to express the desire of a business associate. He thought he had written . . . “He said he would like to talk about using the stock options as collateral . . .” Simple enough, one would think, however, this is actually cut and pasted out of his email to the other partner in our venture and forwarded to me for comments (and for grins):
I talked to Gary
He said he will lilac to Mock about suing the stock options as collateral.?
Having recently sent an email to the other partner saying that I thought I always got his best material, the following is the email that I sent in response to getting the above;
"Well . . . on second thought, you're right, I don't get the best ones. To start with he means 'would,' not 'will,' so he even gets it wrong when he spells it right!
Then . . . and this just boggles the mind, to get 'lilac' out of 'like' takes manual dexterity that very few people have. While the 'l' and the 'k' are next to each other, the 'e' and 'c' live in two different area codes.
Then, of course, you come to the word Mock . . . Outside of proper names and names of books, etc., one would not expect to find the word 'make' capitalized in the middle of a sentence, let alone so badly misspelled. But, to give him his due, using his philosophy, "The glass isn't half empty, it's full, the container is just twice as big as it is supposed to be . . .," I have to admit that he did get two of the four letters correct.
Utilizing a technique formally known only to Houdini, he expertly managed to use the correct finger, be it on the wrong hand and smack the 'o' dead on, fooling both the reader and his own left little pinkie that was thinking, all the while, that an 'a' was in the making. This was then followed up, and in rather quick fashion I might add, by striking the 'c' instead of the 'k,' obviously another well timed diversion just to let his right hand know who was in charge. However, here is where instinct took over and allowing his sharp wit to concur that the word 'make' did in fact start with an 'm' and end with a 'k' (some words are just that way), his now totally confused hands managed to find the 'k' and make one last grand stand . . . Mock!
I can understand mixing the 'u' and the 's' and getting 'suing' instead of 'using', but might suggest a quick tutorial in "Reading What You Just Wrote Prior To Clicking On SEND", before I fired off too many emails that used the word, 'suing' in them. As for the ‘period’ and the ‘question mark’ at the end of the sentence . . . well, who hasn’t made that typo.?
I am reminded of an old saying (actually said to me by many old people . . .), “It is far better to be thought of as an idiot than to put something down in writing and prove it!”
Hmmm . . . let’s see, where is that article I was working on?
Wordsmith
Or, Well What I Meant To Say . . .
We all make mistakes, you know, little typo’s when we are in a rush and our mind is going in one direction and our fingers in another. However, I am currently in a business relationship with a person who can take this ‘human frailty’ to a new high on occasion. Just talking to this person one would never guess that he is afflicted with the little known disease, ‘dyslexic phalangeitis’, a rare condition where the connection between the brain and the fingers is more confused than a Hollywood actor trying to answer a ‘Final Jeopardy’ question.
This business partner has a very sharp mind and thinks in a ‘big picture’ sort of way. However, this does not seem to translate to the written word. We usually get a kick out of his emails and try and avoid having him write too many to customers, etc, which will become obvious in a short while. In an email communication on this date, this particular partner wanted to express the desire of a business associate. He thought he had written . . . “He said he would like to talk about using the stock options as collateral . . .” Simple enough, one would think, however, this is actually cut and pasted out of his email to the other partner in our venture and forwarded to me for comments (and for grins):
I talked to Gary
He said he will lilac to Mock about suing the stock options as collateral.?
Having recently sent an email to the other partner saying that I thought I always got his best material, the following is the email that I sent in response to getting the above;
"Well . . . on second thought, you're right, I don't get the best ones. To start with he means 'would,' not 'will,' so he even gets it wrong when he spells it right!
Then . . . and this just boggles the mind, to get 'lilac' out of 'like' takes manual dexterity that very few people have. While the 'l' and the 'k' are next to each other, the 'e' and 'c' live in two different area codes.
Then, of course, you come to the word Mock . . . Outside of proper names and names of books, etc., one would not expect to find the word 'make' capitalized in the middle of a sentence, let alone so badly misspelled. But, to give him his due, using his philosophy, "The glass isn't half empty, it's full, the container is just twice as big as it is supposed to be . . .," I have to admit that he did get two of the four letters correct.
Utilizing a technique formally known only to Houdini, he expertly managed to use the correct finger, be it on the wrong hand and smack the 'o' dead on, fooling both the reader and his own left little pinkie that was thinking, all the while, that an 'a' was in the making. This was then followed up, and in rather quick fashion I might add, by striking the 'c' instead of the 'k,' obviously another well timed diversion just to let his right hand know who was in charge. However, here is where instinct took over and allowing his sharp wit to concur that the word 'make' did in fact start with an 'm' and end with a 'k' (some words are just that way), his now totally confused hands managed to find the 'k' and make one last grand stand . . . Mock!
I can understand mixing the 'u' and the 's' and getting 'suing' instead of 'using', but might suggest a quick tutorial in "Reading What You Just Wrote Prior To Clicking On SEND", before I fired off too many emails that used the word, 'suing' in them. As for the ‘period’ and the ‘question mark’ at the end of the sentence . . . well, who hasn’t made that typo.?
I am reminded of an old saying (actually said to me by many old people . . .), “It is far better to be thought of as an idiot than to put something down in writing and prove it!”
Hmmm . . . let’s see, where is that article I was working on?
Wordsmith
