Patients!
01/30/2008
While I appreciate the fact that our Government Communication Office regularly puts together a newsletter on current events in the country that anybody can subscribe to, I think it would be kind of nice to respect our language and possibly politicians (?) enough to spell their names correctly. Using čžš, that is.
Unless the keyboards were sponsored by a predominantly English-speaking country, these guys should be able to locate said letters on there someplace and when it comes to the dreaded umlaut, perhaps they should learn from my favourite moose…
Just when I thought the Government Communication Office spelling Slovenia’s President as ‘Tuerk’ was a bit of an issue, I settled a real (or cyber, anyway) life issue with an American company’s live-chat tech-support guy. Let me quote his final words before the black screen sent him to oblivion… (Or possibly back to India.)
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Tech Support Guy: “Thank you for all your patients.”
Hey, anytime 😉
one of your patients said,
January 30, 2008 @ 8:29 pm
There actually IS a polite side to that: mail programmes etc. sometimes do make a massacre of any special signs, like čžš or ü.
That said, I think I’d wince every time I saw my name stripped and changed that way… Not good for a serious newsletter.
Luka said,
January 31, 2008 @ 11:51 am
Yeah, don’t you hate it, when they misspell your name, dř. fíłőmĕņå!
dr.filomena said,
January 31, 2008 @ 11:55 am
@Moose: Agreed. Well, at least they don’t play favourites and strip Janez Jansa as well 😈
@Lůkâ: Spot on!