Re: Technical humor

Subject: Re: Technical humor
From: Steven Gaghan <sgaghan12 -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: David Castro <thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:19:55 -0500

The question is: Did they try to get you to change Appendix to Appendicee in
the document?

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:17 PM, David Castro <thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> I attended a meeting yesterday in which the document I maintain was
> discussed. The document contains a lot of appendices (one for each patch
> that is applied to a system). I made a comment that included the word
> "appendices." The leader of the meeting subconsciously decided that the
> singular for appendices is appendicee rather than appendix. Oddly, the use
> of the word spread throughout the 13 people in the meeting, until they were
> ALL saying "appendicee." It was surreal!
>
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