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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Do you seriously have to confuse things here?
No, but some of super's cow-orkers are.[^] It looks like he(?) was asking us to confirm that they're doing it wrong. Do you really have a problem with people trying to learn how not to elephant our language up?
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--Zachris Topelius
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-- Sarah Hoyt
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"Learning" and "using" are two different things. He can of course learn many ways of addressing ladies in the same room. How he actually calls them depends on his choice. 
After all, even if you find one good word, do you think he would like to address her that way? After all, friend can be anyone, good friends don't mind addressing them by their names.
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What you can do is put a pause between girl and friend, when you mean a friend who is a girl. Or just call her a friend, since it doesn't make any difference whether the friend is male or female, unless you are sexist! 
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Or you can say girl, pause and wink, and then say friend, and then finish the rest of your scotch. Very sassy! 
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What are you talking about? Do you imply that there can be a relationship between men and women that doesn't involve sex somewhere between 'not friend' and 'girl friend'? 
Ok, but seriously, 'friend' should work either way. I've just checked a dictionary[^] which suggests both 'friend' and 'pal'. It even mentions a colloquial, female, variant, 'gal pal'.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Ho[^]???  
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In the Indian context, I** just say:
- Madam is coming, or
- Sir is coming.
** Need to keep in mind that I'm old school, 50 years of age. So, the 'Madam' or 'Sir' may be decades younger than me
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In North America (at least), males tend to refer to their male and female friends simply as "friends", while females tend to refer to their female friends as "girlfriends" and their male friends as "friends".
/ravi
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Wait ... they let girls work these days? 
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It's really not that complicated.
She (or for that matter, he) is a friend. No need for a gender qualifier in such a relationship as it's not of any relevance.*
* If it is relevant, you may consider not only girl-friend, but wife, mistress, concubine, &etc.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: If it is relevant, you may consider not only girl-friend, but wife, mistress, concubine, &etc. and making sure they don't find out
FTFY!
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. . . harem . . .
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I just use the word 'friend'. It's not necessary to qualify that with a gender.
If someone wants to know my friend's gender, they ask, then I tell them. Simples.
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You can say lady-coworker or lady-friend. No one ever uses lady-friend to mean girlfriend.
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Well...
We recently sent our client an update for the mockups of a new website we're about to start developing, in the form of a zip containing a couple of jpeg images (actually the images were mockups for the custom 404 and 500 error pages). So far so good.
Minutes later, our PM got an angry call from the client. Here's how it roughly went down:
[Client]: Hey, the mockups you sent over are not working at all. All I'm getting is errors!
[PM]: What do you mean, that the zip file is corrupt? That you can't open the images?
[Client]: No, the zip is not corrupt, and I can "open" the files, but when I do, I get an error! Fix it NOW!
[PM]: Ok... What kind of error?
[Client]: I get a 404 error on one image and a 500 error on the other. I said, FIX IT NOW!!!
[PM]: hm, you do realize that you're seeing the MOCKUPS for the CUSTOM ERROR pages, right? That you're supposed to see an IMAGE displaying an ERROR. Right?
[Client]:...
Φευ! Εδόμεθα υπό ρηννοσχήμων λύκων!
(Alas! We're devoured by lamb-guised wolves!)
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Brilliant! Well done to all concerned
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Sounds like the only thing that needs fixing is the client! 
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Client can not be fixed! And 101% of clients behave like this in a lot of occasions...Better get used to it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You must not know IBM System/360 programming:
XC - eXecute Client
(actually Xor Character)
EDIT: For the humour-impaired, this was intended to raise a smile. It perhaps did not achieve the desired effect, but I certainly do not advocate harming clients in any way.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
modified 7-Dec-15 10:51am.
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I'm old enought to learn on mainframe and I can remember that eXecute here means this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_killing[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You must have had some really weird instructors (and an even weirder mainframe  ).
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Typical of clients. Get used to it. It's going to happen far more often than you can put up with.
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Next time you send a mock up clearly describe what you are sending, this is a mock up of the the custom error pages and you would not have a pissed off, embarrassed client.
If you did describe it correctly then you are running up against the standard reaction of a client, they hire you therefore they feel they have the right to yell at you.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Next time you send a mock up clearly describe what you are sending, this is a mock up of the the custom error pages and you would not have a pissed off, embarrassed client.
Yeah, we did describe it. Something along the lines of "please review the images that show the design of the custom error pages".
From what I know, a few hours later, both the client and the PM were laughing about it (kudos to the client for being able to be auto-sarcastic).
Φευ! Εδόμεθα υπό ρηννοσχήμων λύκων!
(Alas! We're devoured by lamb-guised wolves!)
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An easy one because I'm out of office tomorrow
#FDF5E6 (7)
modified 7-Dec-15 5:43am.
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