Dear Japanese Coworkers,
This is a memorandum to remind those who wish to write English business correspondence to offshore programming teams that the opposite of the English word "increment" is not "excrement". Please make a note of it.

Thanks awfully,
(The 2-Belo OH SHI--[Sound of impact][End of recording], Wed 9 Mar 2011, 1:58, 13 replies)

Can you understand the nuances of the Japanese language better than they can understand those of the English language?

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 9 Mar 2011, 2:02, closed)

i was going to ask this
^
(augsav forgot about B3ta, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 2:54, closed)

who cares
it's funny
(Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 4:32, closed)

^
Yarp
( rofl harris, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 9:59, closed)

Probably not
but then he probably doesn't want to send Japanese business correspondence to offshore programming teams.
(dchurch bah, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 7:23, closed)

of what relevance is this?

( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:33, closed)

Like him down there \/ said.
It's not stupidity. It may have been funny when it was first posted on Engrish.com back in the 90's though.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 9 Mar 2011, 22:34, closed)

*click*
Can't make that up
(ElGranto, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 4:03, closed)

No! Don't tell them!

(TheWonderfulWombat It came to me in a dream., Wed 9 Mar 2011, 8:26, closed)

That's great!
I was talking to a German friend about engineering a couple of months ago, and he started telling me about the first ship to circumcise the Earth.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 8:58, closed)

Haha.
Don't tell them though. You awful spoilsport.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 9:48, closed)

Funny, yes...
But your colleagues are hardly stupid when they know enough about a completely foreign language and its rules that they can make a good guess at the oposite of "increment". Heck, I bet only 50% of the population of England could tell you that with any authority.
I'm also not sure now that the oposite of an increment is a decrement.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 18:08, closed)

"The blockwork wall shits on the edge of the concrete slab"
and
"Install new red hot lovers" instead of "redwood louvres"
( thistle, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 22:21, closed)