Today, I had to present a program to my supervisors in University. Not being a native English speaker, I used my own invented abbreviations for parameters in the program. Apparently STD is not an appropriate abbreviation for "standard deviation." I can still hear them laughing. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I "answered" an email instead of "forwarding" it. As a result, there is a chance that my Master's thesis supervisor gets a message from me starting by the F-word, and complaining about my bad work and inability to understand a deadline. FML
Today, my supervisor forced me to bring the image of a failed simulation to the group meeting, because he thought it looked funny. So did the others and it's now going on our webpage. I have to provide a scientific description of how I made a mistake in my code. FML
Today, I pronounced FAQ as 'fuck' to my boss. I'm not a native speaker. FML
Today, while not feeling well at work, I had to finish up some papers. I was so out of it, I couldn't remember how to spell my name. I had to improvise by pronouncing each syllable of my name out loud. My boss now thinks I'm a dumbass. FML
Today, I was warned that I was failing too many students and it had to stop, so I showed my boss all of the easy assignments a lot of students didn't even turn in. She told me to stop using so many "big words" in them. I teach at a four year University. FML
Today, I presented the worst seminar presentation probably in the entire history of my graduate department. I kept stumbling over questions, and overall, making an ass out of myself. I probably should leave my masters program at how thoroughly I burned myself. FML
Today, I wanted to look clever during a work meeting, so I used a thesaurus to find a fancy word for “important.” I ended up calling a project "pivotal" but mispronounced it as "pee-votal" in front of everyone. FML
Today, a tourist from an English-as-second-language country taught me a new word. In English. FML
Today, I misspelled the word "failure" in front of all my co-workers. Now I'm not given any writing tasks. FML
Today, I went for an interview at a great company. Everything was going well until I tried to demonstrate my knowledge of their industry by using a technical term. Turns out I'd completely misunderstood the term and used it in the wrong context. The interviewer raised an eyebrow, and I could see "Don't call us, we'll call you" flicker in their eyes. FML
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Pleonasm 36
They were all like " WTF LOL."
zingline89 18
Did they Clap?
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KVKdragon 26
As much as this sucks for you, you could gone to some writing center or another English teach to get your abbreviations and etc proofread. I didn't vote YDI but still... /:|
BlowinChronic 18
You should have gone to a writing teacher to get that comment proofread.
KVKdragon 26
So 2 errors in typed text means I'm illiterate? Real sound logic you got there (not)
CetaBabe 17
Ah... that's an easy one to get caught out with though. My first university lecture, we were told (and have been told every lecture since) to use SD for standard deviation instead of STD unless we want our professor to pick us out about it in front of the whole lecture hall (120 + students). Yeah.... we've all done that once and never done it since.
davek 36
SD is a better one I think? It's a bit like saying "orgasms" instead of "organisms" in a biology lesson.
Zoomali 1
I agree. SD seems more right. I'm having a hard time believing this FML
DontClickOnMe 28
My professor for my Statistics class used that same abbreviation. It's really no big deal, at least it wasn't in my class. Don't worry about it though. They should understand, since English is not your first language.
hunteer9 5
Actually that's one that I used in my stats class at first. Then I went with just SD
loserboii 11
You should give them your "STD".
paigeatsflesh 11
Why would you choose STD? Why not ST?
doodlecloud 27
Because of the 'deviation' bit? SD would make more sense if you have to get rid of a letter.
paigeatsflesh 11
Oh, right. Thats what I meant!
dodzin 9
I am not a native English speaker either, but received my masters degree in English. Read more, read only English - you will be fine ....not right away
Enslaved 38
I learnt so much by watching "¿Qué pasa, U.S.A.?".
gracehi 33
Never has that abbreviation been so hilarious.
Enslaved 38
I know the feeling. :P Talks of my DSL threw me off.
KiddNYC1O 22
Lmao. Uh oh.
perdix 31
#29, yeah, you should see the looks I got when I wanted to go watch hockey and asked where the BBW Arena was!
Enslaved 38
Hope you found out exactly where the puck goes?
perdix 31
Yeah, I rolled her around in flour and looked for the wet spot!
zbug 6
Must be missing something here. DSL = digital subscriber line. Never known it to mean any thing else?
KiddNYC1O 22
Dick-sucking lips.