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Nothing new under the Sun. When I was getting my C.S. degree in the mid-90's I worked at the same time for the C.S. department as an SA. (Actually, they called
by js2 10y ago
Nothing new under the Sun. When I was getting my C.S. degree in the mid-90's I worked at the same time for the C.S. department as an SA. (Actually, they called us sysops at the time.) Anyway, I saw all the help requests that came in from students and faculty. These are C.S. students and faculty mind you. It seemed the further along someone was in their C.S. education the worse the help requests would get.
My favorite, which was particular to a certain nationality, was this one (which we got quite often):
"The Internet is down. Please do the needful."
- DoofusOfDeath 10y ago> "The Internet is down. Please do the needful." You're complaining about such a message??? It's pure poetry!
- lloeki 10y ago> certain nationality Sounds like a word to word translation from french "Merci de faire le nécessaire".
- Markoff 10y agocould be also any slavic language, they use it in same way
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- jwilk 10y ago"do the needful" is en-IN-ism: http://travel.cnn.com/mumbai/life/10-indianisms-652344/ http://travel.cnn.com/mumbai/life/10-indianisms-652344/