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That turns out not to be the case ...
You are wrong.
You'd think so, wouldn't you?
You are so very wrong; you have nothing right at all.
Do you really want to know?
Abandon all hope of a comprehensible answer.
I've used all of them on my bosses in the past, they work like a charm!
The latter in particular made him pause for ten seconds then his watchdog timer would kick in and he'd just let me get on with it. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The one that really gets me, (after I've looked at something in detail and clearly explained the problem), is:
"Noted".
i.e.: I don't care and I'm not going to do anything about it.
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I wish my inbox was this well written.
One time I had to call in my boss and we both sat there for about five minutes analyzing what the customer meant word by word.
The words were in Dutch, but other than that it made no sense whatsoever.
We really went like "all right, last week she said that, so that would mean she probably means that application *opens applications* so she probably means that button..."
I'm now my own boss and I get mails like "the report doesn't work."
I'm sorry, which of the 100 reports doesn't work?
"Sander, I now have the list of products. Can you check which products weren't used in 2019 and which ones we can remove from the list?"
As chance would have it, I was doing something with products at that time, but I had not the slightest clue what this guy was going on about.
Turned out he emailed the wrong Sander 
Not mentioning all the typo's (or just plain grammar errors because my customers aren't exactly linguists).
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Sander Rossel wrote: Not mentioning all the typo's (or just plain grammar errors because my customers aren't exactly linguists).
Does that mean that they can't even write their native language?! 
I know that is a problem in the US, but I'd never have believed it of a civilized country. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That's exactly what it means.
We have one rule in particular that most people don't get, the dreaded "dt rule".
The he/she/you form of a verb ends with a T, even if the I form ends with a D.
So, for example, "worden" (becoming or turning into) is "ik word" (I become) and "hij wordt" (he becomes), but people have a lot of trouble with getting the dt right (so they write "hij word" instead).
Especially since it's "ik werd" and "hij werd" (I/he became), without dt (never use dt for the past).
And then, of course, people also use dt where it's not correct, sometimes even in past form.
But other spelling is sometimes really awful too.
Another thing I notice is that people use Dutch and English, which is a bit weird to be honest.
"We moeten afspreken" (We should meet) becomes "We moeten meeten" (with the "meet" from English, but the "en" from afspreken).
Some words really don't have a Dutch translation, especially in IT, but when using it in a Dutch sentence, Dutch grammar should still apply
For example, "ik heb de file geupload" (I have uploaded the file).
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I got one from our Indian testers / developers. They do speak the King's English down there if I'm not mistaken, but after reading this legendary email 5 times, I still had no idea what was being said / asked.
I like emails that have the subject line, "Did you fix the problem in your code?" Shortly thereafter, it is discovered no one told me about the problem 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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<i>can you update me on your progress?</i>
This week I have established the SQL Database on the enterprise server.
I have begun to create tables, and stored procedures.
Once this is complete, in about a week, I will switch over to building the CRUD Screens.
<i>Can please you explain this in simple terms?</i>
Keep It Simple, keep it moving.
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Be happy about this. When you report to someone who doesn't understand what you do, or who is too senior to spend time on software details, you generally get to set your own priorities and write your own performance evaluation. It's a win-win for you and your manager.
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Send a Progress-bar graphic at some estimated percent complete. Perhaps with some text like ‘Installing Tables’
I’m so glad I retired from all that.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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And now I have a template for about every email I send. 
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Let me know what you decide.
I'm not expending any more effort because it is obvious that my attempt at using logic is useless.
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"Let's take this off-line."
Either (1) I don't care what you have to say, or (2) tabling this issue in the presence of others is going to be embarrassing for me.
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How about, after sending in a rather long report with the explicit instruction to users to "..NOT use product x for comparison purposes as it counts something entirely different from the data in this report" and the absolutely very first responding email starts "..I've just used product x to compare the numbers and they don't tally..."? 
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I think that might fall under "Thanks for your feedback."
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People are so busy that they can't take time to READ emails. You provide someone with detailed instructions and you get a question that is addressed in the first sentence of the email they have supposedly read.
I guess that is why we are developers, we know how to deal with the details and they don't.
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Copy - pasted for my email template!!!
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*No*
I'm going to make you ask for this at least three times to see if you really need/want this.
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Hmmm. I'll play. Using the legend you've supplied, I'm just going to reply with:
Per my last email...
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Heartless marriage players one crazy warning of danger (7)
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Pretty sure it's wrong, but ...
Heartless marriage MARAGE
players one P
crazy warning (anag)
of danger
RAMPAGE
It may not be right - and I doubt it is - but at least you know we are looking! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Nopes!
And yeah - thanks for letting me know that it's being looked at. 
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Well,
I think you beat us again. I bailed out as soon as I realized that there are several card games that could match the phrase "Heartless marriage players".
Marriage group - Wikipedia[^]
I don't know enough about card game terminologies to follow this path.
Apparently Winston Churchill was an avid player of Bezique so at least I learned something new today.
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Okay - for being so much passionate for CCC - clue for you and everyone...
No cards/card-games involved.
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Time up. Posting solution.
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