Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

Subject: Today's exercise in misunderstanding English
From: Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:56:12 -0700 (PDT)

My current job is documenting software that was developed overseas, and today I ran into a good example of being *just* a bit off in wording. The software includes a procedure for updating some types of data. At one point, if you try to proceed without selecting the data type, the program shows an error message that reads: "Please select the data for updation."

I kind of liked that. 




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