Work: Today, I had to present a program to my supervisors in University....

By EnglishLearner - 09/11/2012 16:23 - Switzerland - Mannedorf

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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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

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Friday 9 November 2012 18:51

They were all like " WTF LOL."

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Did they Clap?

Comments

setsuna9 25

Saturday 10 November 2012 3:25

that seems like a perfectly acceptable abbreviation. I've seen it like that before. And, besides, std is also the abbreviation for standard.

CocaColaPepsi 13

Saturday 10 November 2012 3:29

If your not a native English speaker then how would you write this FML? You're such a liar!!

bellaboo95 4

Saturday 10 November 2012 3:32

Actually that is the proper abbreviation for standard deviation. The people in your class just must be immature lol

TheOath 12

Saturday 10 November 2012 4:02

I did the same in math once on a test by accident because it was so long to write it out. My teacher circled it and wrote, "What the hell??" What I write now is St. Dev. I hate stats..