Re: Appalling English
> Then there are cultural taboos. If I were to quote, for example,
> the "Twelve Networking Truths" RFC:
>
> ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1925.txt
>
> > (3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is
> > not necessarily a good idea. ...
>
> I'd worry some about how a Saudi (pork is illegal there; the Koran
> is the basis of all their law) might react.
At a company I used to work at, the docs that described how to print a string used the example: "The king is a fink." This had slumbered peacefully in manual for many years, but caused great consternation when someone noticed it just before we were about to close a multi-million dollar deal with a Saudi Arabian company. It was removed in haste, and the deal was closed. I always wonder what the reaction would have been if it had been left in.
Philip.
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