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Following up on the last email I received which did something funny with my name, this one appears to illustrate the perils of auto-correct:
January, sorry. I will make sure you get the info.
I guess they have their auto-correct set to replace the word “Jan” with the word “January”. Haven’t had that one before, I have to admit…
I got an email this week, the opening line of which was:
Hi Jan (pronounced ‘Yawn’)
It is pronounced “Yawn”, at least in an American accent, but someone has clearly added that little factoid to the surname field in their contact management system instead of a notes field. As a result, when they ran a mail merge or something similar for an emailed press release, it made it in there. Good job it didn’t say, “lousy analyst - doesn’t know what he’s talking about” or anything similar…
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I’m Jan Dawson, and I spend so much time reading and thinking about technology that if I didn’t have a place to let it all out I’d probably explode. Hence this blog. Go here for more about me.
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