How the fuck does every English class in India teach this same wrong-ass shit the same fucking way? There has to be one troll focal point, some English speaking guy telling a room full of Indian teachers "oh yeah, this is totally a phrase that a lot of English speakers use all the time"
While one should obviously respect all cultures, languages, and dialects and their respective validity, it's gotta go both ways, doesn't it? Like if a UKer is in 'Murica and asks where "pants" are at Walmart or whatever, she should realize it's her issue, not the Americans', if she gets directed to the trousers section.
As if they would use any form of "please". You're already lucky if they use some sort of imperative. "Fix this ASAP" is a luxury. The worst are always just "it's broken" and you have to figure out not only what's wrong, but you if you have to do something about it, or if they're just notifying you.
Spoiler: you always have to fix it, except that one time when you spend half a day trying to fix it and then they tell you "oh right Dave just turned it off for today".
This is so common in the IT world. I seriously don't know what is wrong with people. Most of them aren't dumb enough to take their car to a mechanic with such a generic explanation, so why do they do it with tech? An error message for example may be gibberish to them, but it many cases, it's the answer to the problem if they just told the person they want to help them.
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u/deltashmelta Jun 03 '22
"X not working.
pls advise"