Mar 28
n stands for not supposed to be there
So today, I was writing an email to a coworker admonishing him for not signing into our internal IM. This was frustrating to me because I wanted to read the paper he had picked up when we were all at lunch, but I was too lazy to walk to his office to get it. I figured if I could just bug him incessantly via IM, he would eventually break down and bring it over. Emailing doesn’t work the same way, because you can ignore emails…anyway, that’s not my story.
Well, I was writing out ‘instant messaging’ and I kept getting the red squiggly line, and I couldn’t figure out why. After some staring and backspacing and sounding out, I realized…that…I…have…
…it’s almost too embarrassing. I realized I was typing it wrong because I’ve been saying it wrong. I’ve been pronouncing it as ‘instant messaNging”. I have been telling people to send me a ‘messaNge’.
I am dumb.
Tschuss!!
March 28th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I’m sure that must have been accideNtal versus inteNtional…????
March 29th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
That’s why God invented acronyms. My rule of thumb is to never spell something out that you can put into initials. That way you can’t spell it wrong. ;-).
Didja get the newspaper?
March 29th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Jeff - More like accidentally intentional. But yeah, no, I wasn’t doing it on purpose.
kari - I know! I was just trying to sound official with my typing it all out…and no, no newspaper. Generally people ignore my demands at work…and at home…huh.