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Posted: Nov 16, 2016 - 1:17pm
K_Love wrote: meower wrote: I have a coworker who regularly sends emails that say "may you please..." Makes me cray cray. Is English her first language? It sounds like a lost-in-translation type of thing. it is her first language.

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Posted: Nov 16, 2016 - 1:16pm
meower wrote: I have a coworker who regularly sends emails that say "may you please..." Makes me cray cray. Is English her first language? It sounds like a lost-in-translation type of thing.

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Posted: Nov 16, 2016 - 11:21am

Proclivities wrote:

meower wrote:

oh she does...... "provide me with dates that we can me," "cancel your patients for the day after Thanksgiving," "finish the project that was assigned to you..."

so yea, the finishing of the thoughts, that's its own thing.

I figured that phrase was probably followed by some unsavory requests but I was being silly. It's weird that someone would even think to use the word "may" (asking for permission) instead of the obvious "would", "could", or "will" as a directive. That would wind me up too, but you probably don't want to bother correcting her either. I guess if she wrote "May I have the McGuffin report, in triplicate, on my desk by 6:15 AM, tomorrow." it would be correct as a sort of passive/aggressive thing.

I knew you were being silly. silly.

I think that she has learned to not use the word "can" and is using "may." I just don't have it in me to correct her

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Posted: Nov 16, 2016 - 10:40am

meower wrote:

oh she does...... "provide me with dates that we can me," "cancel your patients for the day after Thanksgiving," "finish the project that was assigned to you..."

so yea, the finishing of the thoughts, that's its own thing.

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Posted: Nov 16, 2016 - 10:29am

Proclivities wrote:

meower wrote:

I have a coworker who regularly sends emails that say "may you please..."

Makes me cray cray.

That's all he writes, just those three words? That would drive me crazy too; he should at least finish the thought.
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oh she does...... "provide me with dates that we can me," "cancel your patients for the day after Thanksgiving," "finish the project that was assigned to you..."

so yea, the finishing of the thoughts, that's its own thing.

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Posted: Nov 16, 2016 - 10:26am
meower wrote: I have a coworker who regularly sends emails that say "may you please..." Makes me cray cray. That's all he writes, just those three words? That would drive me crazy too; he should at least finish the thought.

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Posted: Nov 16, 2016 - 10:21am
I have a coworker who regularly sends emails that say "may you please..." Makes me cray cray.

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Posted: Sep 16, 2016 - 7:40pm

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Posted: Aug 24, 2016 - 5:05pm
K_Love wrote: I heart this ... He he. Like.

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Posted: Aug 24, 2016 - 3:55pm
haresfur wrote: You look beautiful in your sparkly Sequim dress.

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Posted: Aug 24, 2016 - 3:49pm
BlueHeronDruid wrote: Sequim. Puyallup. Seiku. Humptulips. All pronounced "Smythe." You look beautiful in your sparkly Sequim dress.

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Posted: Aug 24, 2016 - 3:48pm
BlueHeronDruid wrote: Sequim. Puyallup. Seiku. Humptulips. All pronounced "Smythe." Squim!

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Posted: Aug 24, 2016 - 3:47pm
Sequim. Puyallup. Seiku. Humptulips. All pronounced "Smythe."

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Posted: Aug 24, 2016 - 3:44pm

ptooey wrote:

Pueblo, Colorado. Pretty much anyone will pronounce this as pwebblo, you know, the spanish word for town. Unless you happen to be from the area around Pueblo. Then, you pronounce it pyebblo or pyabblo. I don't know.

The Souris River in Manitoba where they pronounce it "souris" instead of francophone "souri". Until it crosses the border into North Dakota where they pronounce it "mouse."

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Posted: Aug 24, 2016 - 2:35pm
Red_Dragon wrote: There is a city in Oklahoma named Anadarko. For reasons that escape me, virtually everyone here pronounces it Anandarko. I learned Anandarko and probably corrected a few people who spelled it right

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Posted: Aug 24, 2016 - 2:20pm
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Posted: May 26, 2016 - 6:42am
Red_Dragon wrote: There is a city in Oklahoma named Anadarko. For reasons that escape me, virtually everyone here pronounces it Anandarko. Pueblo, Colorado. Pretty much anyone will pronounce this as pwebblo, you know, the spanish word for town. Unless you happen to be from the area around Pueblo. Then, you pronounce it pyebblo or pyabblo. I don't know.

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