Dear Microsoft

Some time back, I read this article on Microspeak by James Gleick, in which we learn that a "bug" is now a "known issue."

Known? Known to whom? If it were known we wouldn't spend hours looking through Microspeak documentation trying to translate it back into English.

There's a choice Orwell quote at the end of the column: "A speaker who uses that kind of phraseology has gone some distance toward turning himself into a machine."

3:20:24 PM #
categories: Dear Microsoft, Language, System Administration