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[Jester]

The funny thing was having my boss translate for me; He couldn't make heads or tails of it, and he's a native Spanish speaker.

Idiocy is international, my friend.

Can you find something that somebody else discovered and was never lost?

Electricity. Ben Franklin.

Innumerable stars and galaxies that astronomers have been discovering over the centuries, quite intentionally, by looking for them.

[Betweenshades]

I usually go right for Google Translate for language translation, but when there's a guy right next to me who speaks the language that needs to be translated, I ask him first

(I'm also not posting the contents of the email due to customer privacy constraints. )

Incidentally, when he said how crappy the Spanish was, I Googled the snot out of it. Random verbs. Really. So, I wrote back (it was a real customer, before anyone asks- they have bought from me before) and told them that we only speak English and will be happy to help them when they ask in said language. They responded in Spanish with no punctuation in all caps. *headdesk*

[Ironclad Alibi]

How about a vocabulary quiz where there's a word bank provided and one of the definitions is "A long conflict between England and France that lasted from 1337 and 1453"...only to have a third of the students miss it.

I think they made a movie out of that one. It is featured in this cartoon.