I would like to meet Dr. Noun PhD. On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Sruthi Krishnan <[email protected]>wrote:
> A long time ago, I was roped into organising a picnic in my workplace. > There was this guy who told me in all seriousness - We are going to be > in the global top 10 soon. So the picnic should be professional and > must include things which he had learnt at a recent manager > conference. He wanted to rephrase the invite email and I was taught > that the idea of being 'professional' was to include lots more nouns. > Instead of saying, let us know if you'll come or not, he wanted to > write 'Please revert with the notification of your acceptance'. He > wanted to add rules (with lots of nouns, of course) on how people > should reach the place and when and what they should bring etc. And he > wanted to buy gifts that were official and fun. I don't remember his > name. All I can recall is that he had a PhD and signed his emails with > a Dr. > > But this was just the beginning of me being the creator of nouns. > Every time we wrote a proposal, my job was to spot possibilities and > add the nouns - 'the prime functionality of the test bed is > identification of all possible bugs'. Folks liked longer sentences. It > was all quite professional. > > > Sruthi > >
