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Bad language

Sad news of the standard of spelling and grammar in your software.
Kevin Langthorne from Stafforce Personnel attaches a couple of screenshots from his company’s recruitment software, one of which explains that: ‘Your password will expire is 7 days’, and the other that: ‘Sorry – you do not have delete priviledges on this file’.
‘We used to use a program called Winimage,’ another reader tells us. ‘If the floppy drive was in use by another application the error would read: “Floppy drive exceeded, Make sure someone dont use it”.’
Which has its own demonic poetry, we think.

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