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Subject:Re: Levity in the workplace From:Alexia Prendergast <alexiap -at- SEAGATESOFTWARE -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 13 Jun 1997 11:22:14 -0400
When I was doc'ing mainframe stuff, I wrote
about datasets and my spellchecker insisted
on changing "dataset" to "detest"... Hmmmm...
Freudian slips from a spellchecker... scary
stuff! ;)
--
Alexia Prendergast
Senior Technical Writer
Seagate Software
alexiap -at- sems -dot- com
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>From: Cramer, Kim[SMTP:kcramer -at- NCSLINK -dot- COM]
>Sent: Friday, June 13, 1997 11:12 AM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Re: Levity in the workplace
>
>Paul Branchaud asked:
>>How do you make your job fun?
>
>We trade funny emails (some from this list - thanks!), silly typos (my
>favorite is the "resource allocator" that became "resource alligator"
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