In keeping with today's theme...
I'm editing a scientific white paper for my company this afternoon. It was first written in French, and then very poorly translated to English. It concerns a study done on poultry (broiler chickens to be precise) to determine vaccination efficacy. I get to do this all the time...I know, I know, ya'all are so jealous of my insanely cool job.
Anyway, one of the first things I do when receiving a document of this sort is to change, in Word, the official language of the document from French to English. If I don't do this, Word puts all sorts of angry, red squiggly lines under words that I damn well know are spelled correctly. It's been doing this over and over today for the word "farm." Just out of curiosity, I right clicked on one of the "farms" to see what alternate Word recommends.
Apparently "fart" is a legitimate word in French.
Anyway, one of the first things I do when receiving a document of this sort is to change, in Word, the official language of the document from French to English. If I don't do this, Word puts all sorts of angry, red squiggly lines under words that I damn well know are spelled correctly. It's been doing this over and over today for the word "farm." Just out of curiosity, I right clicked on one of the "farms" to see what alternate Word recommends.
Apparently "fart" is a legitimate word in French.
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Can we get an update on that laundry detergent? Curious to see if it worked...
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