Someone sent a bit of Internet Humour™ to a mailing list I’m on, featuring The top 16 things likely to be overheard if you had Klingon technical writers working on your documentation team”.
Number six on the list was:
6. This version of Word is a piece of GAGH! I need the latest version of Framemaker if I am to do battle with this manual.
I responded that, since gagh was food, and considered a delicacy by Klingons, this phrase made no sense.
But I can’t believe I actually started an e-mail with the sentence “A Klingon wouldn’t say that.”
cjdoyle
Counterpoint: Just because they eat it doesn’t mean they necessarily LIKE it.
Or, considering the consistency of Gagh, maybe they were making a joke about MS “Spaghetti Code”
madfilkentist
It’s spaghetti code that’s full of bugs and won’t stand still.
technoshaman
You and need to get together and compare notes. (He knows Klingon.)
Of course, I have to wonder if Klingons would have technical writers at all. After all, manuals are for the weak, who can’t figure it out from uncommented C source. 🙂 🙂 🙂
tigertoy
No, no, you misunderstand. This is a comment by one of the *human* members of the team, who’s picked up some Klingon speech patterns (“do battle with this manual”), but is using the human opinion of gagh as a referent.
With a little fannish creativity, you can make anything make sense.
dan_ad_nauseam
Of course, CodeKlingon would never stand for the manager’s criticism of his work.
elgecko
In unrelated news, Klingon is by a wide margin the most commonly spoken artificial language. Several times the population of Esperantists.
davehogg
But I can’t believe I actually started an e-mail with the sentence “A Klingon wouldn’t say that.”
We can believe it.
thatcrazycajun
Sorta reminds me of the story (apocryphal?) of how a network suit supposedly sent back a marked-up episode script to the producers of MY FAVORITE MARTIAN one year, with one of Ray Walston’s lines struck through and tagged with the comment, “A Martian wouldn’t say that.”
acciochocolate
Best story ever! 🙂
happyfunpaul
Word processor. Food processor. Just sayin’
acciochocolate
I was quite amused by your reply, but if you hadn’t posted it already, I would have. LOL!