Spongeworthy

Ungodly - 7-11-2005 at 10:30 AM

Remember that episode of Seinfeld?

OK well I work with the writing of computer consultants, and many of them are ESL, usually Indian. One of our authors must have seen that epsiode and thought spongeworthy was a widely-used English idiom for "good." He keeps using it in emails to us and he just put it in an article draft (I have found this coded workaround to be quite spongeworthy...").

Cracking up ova here...

Thats Life - 7-11-2005 at 10:37 AM

I have a guy in my office that always attached smiley faces to emails. He also has a ton of files about virtual pets and wizards on his computer.

moron - 7-11-2005 at 11:12 AM

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He keeps using it in emails to us and he just put it in an article draft (I have found this coded workaround to be quite spongeworthy...").

Holy shit! That's fucking great! hahahahaha

all I have to deal with are people to whom English is thier second language so they spell how they speak. I review this one lady's cases and instead of "during" she always types "doting". I wish she would use "spongeworthy" though. God, that would brighten my day.

Ungodly - 7-11-2005 at 11:26 AM

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Originally posted by Ungodly
He keeps using it in emails to us and he just put it in an article draft (I have found this coded workaround to be quite spongeworthy...").

Yeah, every once in a while you get a good one.

Lots of native speakers do that phoenetic/wrong spelling too. I have been editing the writing of business people who put writing on their resumes for 6 years and I am starting to think most of the population is technically illiterate, never mind the ESL.

RomanticViolence - 7-11-2005 at 11:36 AM

hahaha... good shit!

Thats Life - 7-11-2005 at 11:48 AM

I email back and forth with a lot of middle eastern people and often times can not understand the emails at all. At least when talking to someone who speaks broken english you can pick up on tones and hand motions etc. Emails are a nightmare.

Ungodly - 7-11-2005 at 12:13 PM

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Originally posted by Thats Life
I email back and forth with a lot of middle eastern people and often times can not understand the emails at all. At least when talking to someone who speaks broken english you can pick up on tones and hand motions etc. Emails are a nightmare.

OK, now try making those emails into something you can publish. From 9-5 my life does not usually rule.

Neil of steel - 7-11-2005 at 02:04 PM

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Remember that episode of Seinfeld?

THAT WAS A GOOD EPISODE!!

BDx13 - 7-11-2005 at 04:57 PM

good episode and a hilarious story, ungodly, thank you.
i used to work with a bunch of indian and pakistani guys when i lived in SF. they always made great use of american slang.