I just received a call from a business in Melbourne. They wanted a one day course on a topic I think I know fairly well. Even more, a topic I really care about and of which I wish more people had a decent understanding.
I wanted to say "Yes, absolutely, we'd love to provide you training on that". I'd even seriously consider doing it for free.
Instead I said "We provide training in the computer programming language Perl. We could definately put together a course on correctly using apostrophes, but you might be better off calling an organisation who already has such a course."
So they went away.
I really don't know how they decided that Perl Training Australia might possibly have a course on correctly using apostrophes. It's not as if our webpage suggests we run office skills training...
I hope they get a really good course and learn that the humble apostrophe doesn't mean "the next letter will be an 's'."
I should have said yes though....
Re:Isnt that nice.
jk2addict on 2005-07-21T21:00:35
It would be a shame if they didnt.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist)
