the violence inherent in the system

[cimorene]

I still have a cold. Last night I importuned Wax to make me some instant cauliflower soup, and then was basically unable to taste it, so it was like a gradually cooling gelatinous kind of... slimy... thing... and it ended up kind of gross and I threw the remainder of it away this morning.

Last night after translating the text from about 50 pages of graphs, I suddenly realised that "Ing." didn't stand for "Ingen" (No, none) as I had thought because that made no sense. I scoured Wikipedia and Google and finally went through all the Ing- words in Wax's dictionary to no avail. ENGINEERS. They write their reports just as if nobody but them is ever going to read them and send them off to be translated by someone who doesn't actually know that much about their particular sort of jargon (I mean, steam turbines, it's a slightly specialised area). I finally left the "Ing." there, just like the other Mystery Acronyms and Abbreviations, and the non-Swedish-speaking engineers who are doubtless going to peruse it at the other end can worry about it. I do feel a bit guilty, though. But at least I'm finished! I'll let Brother Windows say it:



Oh, and one more thing. Our latest Threadless order (Gay Pride and Stabby McKnife) hasn't even arrived yet so I guess I can't order this new t-shirt that's made of awesome yet: Identifying Flying Objects. (STEALTH BOMBER! Flying carpet! Lost Boy!)

Comments

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Don't, I deal with engineers from all over and all the Germanic ones use 'Ing'. It took me much longer than it should have to work it out from context.

Re: t-shirts

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

I give you Obama riding a unicorn.