"Whilst"
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From: Europe
When I receive an email containing the phrase 'please revert with your position', I copy paste my previous mail and send it off. Confuses the hell out of them, gives me something to laugh at.
'We shall do the needful' is code, and means the exact opposite of what's written.
'We shall do the needful' is code, and means the exact opposite of what's written.
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From: evicted
I only revert back to intimate you to be guided accordingly and do the needful due to regretfully our SVP of Inglish expired at the weekend but.
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From: Eternal Beach
Just reading the ASR's (bored).
"Of grate" Was used in a report about engine cowl securing in BUD on a 330.
Of grate? Seriously?
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, the most esteemed commander of the iron bird known as the Aey three thirty is of grate to the peasants that workith on said vessel!
halas
"Of grate" Was used in a report about engine cowl securing in BUD on a 330.
Of grate? Seriously?
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, the most esteemed commander of the iron bird known as the Aey three thirty is of grate to the peasants that workith on said vessel!
halas
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From: Dusty West
whilst |(h)wīlst|
conjunction& rel.adverbchiefly Brit.
while.
ORIGIN late Middle English: from whiles + -t as in against.
Still in the dictionary so what is the problem?
Do you have fits when you hear the word "tyre"?
conjunction& rel.adverbchiefly Brit.
while.
ORIGIN late Middle English: from whiles + -t as in against.
Still in the dictionary so what is the problem?
Do you have fits when you hear the word "tyre"?
Thread Starter
Joined: Feb 2007
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From: UAE
The problem is that the EK Language Police themselves advises against using said word even though it's used ad nauseam in company documentation.
That's why!
That's why!
Last edited by Adverseyawn; 2nd December 2014 at 14:57.
