Bloopers that we Love

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There are things about communication that all of us hear all the time. But there are some funny things that can happen between people who are known to be good in communication.

My colleague once sent me a mail asking for "contact details" for a review that we had to do, or so the mail read. I had a doubt though as to why would she require the contact details when the person to meet and the location was already agreed. Anyway, I just sent her the details. I got a call within the next minute from her and we both couldn't control our laughter. As it turns out, she wrote "contact details" when she actually wanted to say "contract details" and realized it only upon seeing my reply.

We were just wondering how much of a difference even a letter makes to the meaning of a word. This is something that all of us do sometimes. And these bloopers just help lighten the atmosphere and brings cheer to all concerned. Of course, this is not to mean that you can commit such bloopers in a mail to your vice president. :)

Well, enough about unintended bloopers. Actually, if it were not for spell check, most of our mails would be funny I guess :) Even with spell check facility, I have many times turned it off unintentionally and sent mails with some funny bloopers. May god bless the guy who invented spell check!

Comments

  1. ChitraJanuary 6, 2009 at 8:00 PM

    Ya very true. Leave the formal writing, it mostly turn out very funny wen we shorten the word. Jus wanted to share sum funny incident. One of my friend write the word sorry as sori. And there was sum misunderstanding between his friend named devi, so to apologies he sent a sms saying sori devi. She read that in a different manner n started fighting for calling her as sori devi;)(if u know tamil then u can understand others plz excuse)

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