You post In conversation, I've heard numerous non-tech types say, "I'll ping so-and-so about x" or simply "I'll ping so-and-so." The meaning varies on the context. Sometimes, it means, I'll ask X what he thinks. Others, it just means, I'll say hello.
reminded me of one of my least favorite words.. LAN..
around here, people "LAN" messeges, files attachments..
of course they do no such thing, what they really do is send email messages with messages, file attachments, links, etc.
coming from their mouths, the message "the LAN is down" can mean,
I can't get my computer to turn on
I can't log in
Lotus Notes (our email server) is down
i can't print
or another assorted problems.
when we rolled out Notes, one hard concept to teach was that users would need a new password for Notes. and when we force a Netware Log in Password change, lots of people had trouble opening Notes.. "I don't understand, my LAN password changed, and i wanted to LAN a message, so i put my LAN password into Notes to LAN a message..only it didn't work! the LAN must be down.. i can't get into my LAN messages!
you can see how you could substitute F***ing for LAN in about 50% of the places and the information you received from the user would make about as much sense!
