Comment On Brevity Is Important

Paul likes brevity, so he was discouraged when he received a really long and confusing error message. For those unfamiliar, "brevity" is defined by Merriam-Webster as a shortness of duration, or a shortness or conciseness of expression. To elaborate, it is the ability to describe a potentially complex idea in as quick a way as possible, leaving out extraneous details that would serve only to confuse the listener. If extra details are needlessly left in, listeners' eyes will glaze over and they'll stop paying attention to your message, which is why it is of the utmost importance that an idea be expressed clearly and quickly. Also, be sure to phrase your message in simple language. Overly uburbulous words will klologe readers if they have deblionic vocabularies. When trying to write humor, knowing when to end a joke is important, too. God damnit, here's your screenshot. [expand full text]
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Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:07 • by ParkinT
"If there is no problem, ignore this message'
I LOVE IT!!

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:07 • by mr. fluffy (unregistered)
It's like a foreign graduate student hopped up on Confucius terminology had a hay day.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:08 • by Hit (unregistered)
Looks almost Babelfished, honestly.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:09 • by shadowman
Another developer screwed by babelfish.com ?

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:12 • by Sheb (unregistered)
Overly uburbulous words will klologe readers if they have deblionic vocabularies


Come on! Those aren't even real words anymore. You're just making shit up now.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:13 • by AdT (unregistered)
Seems more like the result of an unholy cooperation between babelfish and babblefish.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:16 • by th0mas (unregistered)
"Oooohhhhh..."

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:17 • by Rick (unregistered)
129510 in reply to 129507
Sheb:
Overly uburbulous words will klologe readers if they have deblionic vocabularies


Come on! Those aren't even real words anymore. You're just making shit up now.


I think that was his point...

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:18 • by vt_mruhlin
Sometimes verbosity is a good thing though, (I'm thinking about the time that MS Outlook told me "could not load the set of folders"...that's when I switched to Thunderbird).

But running things through babelfish from English to Chinese, back to English isn't helping anyone.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:19 • by AbbydonKrafts
LMAO! I liked the intro more than the screenshot.

Sheb:
Come on! Those aren't even real words anymore. You're just making shit up now.


That really made me laugh out loud. Luckily my co-workers already think I'm crazy, so it doesn't draw attention when I do.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:23 • by spamparranoid (unregistered)
How many people looked up those words just in case?

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:28 • by Ms. Crabapple (unregistered)
129517 in reply to 129507
Sheb:
Overly uburbulous words will klologe readers if they have deblionic vocabularies


Come on! Those aren't even real words anymore. You're just making shit up now.


uburbulous is a perfectly cromulent word.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:30 • by ferox3000 (unregistered)
Ummmmm..........Wow.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:31 • by dkf (unregistered)
Anyone want to guess what language the author of the contents of that dialog usually uses? It's sure not English...

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:32 • by Sheb (unregistered)
uburbulous is a perfectly cromulent word.


Haha, love the Simpsons reference...

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:43 • by Zen (unregistered)
Wha?

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:45 • by max (unregistered)
Could be fertilized by special purpose in other application program.

ummmmmm.... what?!?!?!

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:46 • by C Gomez (unregistered)
This makes me miss Paula Bean. The pig go.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:47 • by rd (unregistered)
I am firmly, it had more truths to run in the source language in it through a freedom on-line translation program in front of.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:48 • by newfweiler
129527 in reply to 129514
spamparranoid:
How many people looked up those words just in case?

Did you know the word "gullible" isn't in any edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary?

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:48 • by IM (unregistered)
All our base are belong to us!

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:56 • by notromda
129530 in reply to 129527
newfweiler:
spamparranoid:
How many people looked up those words just in case?

Did you know the word "gullible" isn't in any edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary?


You know, I told that to somebody who looked it up and kept arguing that it was... They thought they had won the argument. I don't think they ever got the joke. :(

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 11:58 • by mare (unregistered)
Google says it used to be korean ;)

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:02 • by Troy Mclure (unregistered)
129533 in reply to 129527
newfweiler:
spamparranoid:
How many people looked up those words just in case?

Did you know the word "gullible" isn't in any edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary?


Really? Let me go look it up. I swear it is.
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Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:07 • by bstorer
On a hunch, I pushed this whole thing through Babelfish into simplified Chinese and back to English. Now it's much more readable:

The question which discovered is surpassed. But, this did not mean that, the correlation part wrongly is a matter. Can apply fertilizer by the special goal in other application procedures. And, this did not mean that, it is to the system question. It meant that, this is possibly a cause if the question occurs catches the AVI document work and the play. If does not have the question capture and the play, neglects this information. If the question occurs is using the AVI document the work which connects, reconstructs with AVI the registration information which connects. The cause knew into the application procedure, with if the support function about restored in the related application procedure, reconstruction directly at related program. If other questions continue under, directly carries out in ' revises '.


Here's the original text, so you don't have to type it out yourself:

Found problem more than one.

However, this does not mean that relevant part is thing by mistake. Could be fertilized by special purpose in other application program.

Also, this does not mean that it is to system problem.

Only, it means that this can be one cause if problem happens Capture work and Play of AVI file.

If there is no problem Capture and Play, ignore this information.

If problem happens in work that is connected with AVI file, reconstruct registry information that is connected with AVI.

Cause knows became application program, and if support function regarding restoration in relevant application program, reconstruct directly at relevant program.

If other problem is continued, execute below 'Modification' directly.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:08 • by fertilizer, all right (unregistered)
please to reference important software brand egletium-wise, so avoid we mustlike.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:17 • by joe.edwards
This post is scrumtrulescent.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:18 • by kirchhoff
129541 in reply to 129517
Ms. Crabapple:

uburbulous is a perfectly cromulent word.


While cromulent may have been a made-up word, it certainly isn't anymore. I've used it in conversation (entirely by accident) and people seemed to understand what it meant (either coincidentally or by context).

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:20 • by anne (unregistered)
all your words are belong to us!!!

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:26 • by Shakespeare (unregistered)
129544 in reply to 129542
LORD POLONIUS

This business is well ended.
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
But let that go.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:31 • by AnthonyG
All your MessageBox are belong to us

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:32 • by joe.edwards
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

(This poem was so good that many of the nonsense words made their way into the dictionaries.)

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:36 • by DM (unregistered)
129548 in reply to 129546
AnthonyG:
All your MessageBox are belong to us



yessah! Zero-wing!!

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:37 • by muttonchop (unregistered)
Found Engrish more than one.

For clarity's sake, here's the babelized version:

_ the question 1 or est plus the end observ. _ but, of that error for
this est interested constitu relative of marcature of est, situation,
of that material t not signific. _ Fattening/fertilizing that
according to the action of d a other trabalh special probable
objective of the application of the easy program _ this t not signific
ulteriorly that east situation system of the question of est _ if work
of question t and GRANDFATHERS of the game of the file of extration,
if est a transformation relation, simple situation signific. _ if
extration or the game requests nont, this information negligenci. _ if
the question introduces the work OF GRANDFATHERS of the file, of that,
turn sistemazione OF GRANDFATHERS of the left information, of that
protegge. _ that relation of transformation of the interest, if
repairs, you suport of the function of est in application programs you
relative connection of the program of est in which caracteriz of est,
dirij of desenvolv, transformate you application programs, you known t
_ if another one continu of the question, directs the step ' under
corrección'. _

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:39 • by sjs (unregistered)
129551 in reply to 129541
kirchhoff:
Ms. Crobople:

uburbulous is a perfectly cromulent word.


While cromulent may have been a made-up word, it certainly isn't anymore. I've used it in conversation (entirely by accident) and people seemed to understand what it meant (either coincidentally or by context).


It certainly is still a made-up word. It is gibberish, nonsense. Regardless off your view on what its definition should be and no matter how many of your friends want to act smart by pretending to know words they're unfamiliar with it is still just a meaningless word that was made up for The Simpsons.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:42 • by crookeddy
129553 in reply to 129549
Me weet why you mean people the pret people returns it this no English speaks. I am one of the ten most raised programmers and the developers in the world. In my whole life, I made only 37 insecten! (yes, I have! geteld) but when bad English to write to me made you to it pret of me in spite of my intelect higher. It is the proof that not to leave intelligence in America east!

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 12:44 • by Zylon
129554 in reply to 129548
DM:
AnthonyG:
All your MessageBox are belong to us



yessah! Zero-wing!!

Congratulations on your third-grade mastery of Internet fads.

/the best way to suck the humor out of a reference is to point at it and scream "I get it!"

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 13:08 • by Mogri (unregistered)
129559 in reply to 129551
sjs:
kirchhoff:
Ms. Crobople:

uburbulous is a perfectly cromulent word.


While cromulent may have been a made-up word, it certainly isn't anymore. I've used it in conversation (entirely by accident) and people seemed to understand what it meant (either coincidentally or by context).


It certainly is still a made-up word. It is gibberish, nonsense. Regardless off your view on what its definition should be and no matter how many of your friends want to act smart by pretending to know words they're unfamiliar with it is still just a meaningless word that was made up for The Simpsons.


It is still a made-up word, but it is not meaningless. Just because a word is made-up does not prevent it from having meaning. See "Jabberwocky" (conveniently posted above) for some great examples of this; also, see http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cromulent for a definition of the "meaningless" word.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 13:22 • by tachyomatic (unregistered)
129563 in reply to 129503
Where is the OK, Retry, and Cancel buttons?

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 13:25 • by Fluffy (unregistered)
129564 in reply to 129528
IM:
All our base are belong to us!


It's "All YOUR base". You fail.

captcha - gygax, creator of D&D. (hehe, I'm not a nerd.)

I believe Samuel L. Jackson put it best.

2007-03-30 13:27 • by AHGrayLensman (unregistered)
"ENGLISH, m*therf*cker!!! Do you speak it?"

captcha: muhahaha (rather apropos...)

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 13:35 • by Jeff (unregistered)
129569 in reply to 129505
Hit:
Looks almost Babelfished, honestly.


Yes but what were the source and destination languages?

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 13:50 • by Scurvee (unregistered)
What kind of fertilizer is he using?

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 14:01 • by JR (unregistered)
the program this came from should be used as fertilizer

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 14:03 • by JR (unregistered)
Maybe the window was called Capture Support Manager so someone would capture a support manager to tell them what this really means.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 14:03 • by wavenger
This is why we don't let engineers write anything that a customer will ever have to see, and why there aren't legions of sinophone technical writers smashing the gates of Rome to take my job.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 14:18 • by Reaver (unregistered)
129586 in reply to 129565
AHGrayLensman:
"ENGLISH, m*therf*cker!!! Do you speak it?"

captcha: muhahaha (rather apropos...)


"Say 'What?' again. SAY 'WHAT?' AGAIN!"

http://childsplay.ytmnd.com/

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 14:24 • by RobertB
129587 in reply to 129524
max:
Could be fertilized by special purpose in other application program.

ummmmmm.... what?!?!?!

The closest translation I can come up with is this:
I think some other program just took a dump on my stack.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 14:39 • by Jake Vinson
I didn't invent the word "uburbulous." Alex came up with it for Enter The Matrix.

Re: Brevity Is Important

2007-03-30 14:58 • by Thorin (unregistered)
Ok I'll admit it I actually had to check....flame on I don't care.

"uburbulous words will klologe readers if they have deblionic vocabularies"

uburbulous - doesn't come up at dictionary.reference.com, though is found by google (though it brings up a lot of Matrix references not any actual definition that I could find).

klologe - Nothing @ dictionary. Two non-English references on google.

deblionic - Nothing @ dictionary. Google says "Did you mean Dublin" and returns nothing.
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