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[autographedcat]

Someone sent a bit of Internet Humour™ to a mailing list I'm on, featuring The top 16 things likely to be overheard if you had Klingon technical writers working on your documentation team".

Number six on the list was:

6. This version of Word is a piece of GAGH! I need the latest version of Framemaker if I am to do battle with this manual.

I responded that, since gagh was food, and considered a delicacy by Klingons, this phrase made no sense.

But I can't believe I actually started an e-mail with the sentence "A Klingon wouldn't say that."

Comments

[cjdoyle.livejournal.com]

Counterpoint: Just because they eat it doesn't mean they necessarily LIKE it.

Or, considering the consistency of Gagh, maybe they were making a joke about MS "Spaghetti Code"

[madfilkentist]

It's spaghetti code that's full of bugs and won't stand still.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

You and zeekar need to get together and compare notes. (He knows Klingon.)

Of course, I have to wonder if Klingons would have technical writers at all. After all, manuals are for the weak, who can't figure it out from uncommented C source. :) :) :)

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

No, no, you misunderstand. This is a comment by one of the *human* members of the team, who's picked up some Klingon speech patterns ("do battle with this manual"), but is using the human opinion of gagh as a referent.

With a little fannish creativity, you can make anything make sense.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

Of course, CodeKlingon would never stand for the manager's criticism of his work.

[elgecko.livejournal.com]

In unrelated news, Klingon is by a wide margin the most commonly spoken artificial language. Several times the population of Esperantists.

[davehogg.livejournal.com]

But I can't believe I actually started an e-mail with the sentence "A Klingon wouldn't say that."

We can believe it.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Sorta reminds me of the story (apocryphal?) of how a network suit supposedly sent back a marked-up episode script to the producers of MY FAVORITE MARTIAN one year, with one of Ray Walston's lines struck through and tagged with the comment, "A Martian wouldn't say that."

[acciochocolate.livejournal.com]

Best story ever! :)

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

Word processor. Food processor. Just sayin'

[acciochocolate.livejournal.com]

I was quite amused by your reply, but if you hadn't posted it already, I would have. LOL!