Sunday, October 05, 2008

Sprinting

From a Sprint ad:

A Blackberry PDA is shown, with this text on its screen:
J, need you to spearhead deliverables for user-centric platform -
create onboarding opportunities. Cheers, -M.

Please tell me actual people don't really talk that way.
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5 comments:

  1. genderist1:20 PM

    No way. It'd never be texted in a complete sentence without fake words. It's way more likely to say:

    J- need u del 4 u-c-p; create onboard opps M

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  2. Cerulean Bill1:33 PM

    You're not helping!!!!

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  3. Lone Chatelaine7:48 PM

    Ugh, that is exactly how my director talks. I hate that word..."deliverables". She uses that all the time.

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  4. Cerulean Bill8:17 PM

    Deliverables I can almost handle. The onboarding gets me. I'm not a big fan of portmanteau words. At least, the clumsy ones.

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  5. Unknown11:16 PM

    As Scott Adams once said: if you can understand that, we feel sorry for you.

    Or something like that. :-)

    Carolyn Ann

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