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Discussion Groups / English Usage / June 2008An exception experienced
According to the UPS web site, my package has "experienced an exception" because of "adverse weather conditions". > According to the UPS web site, my package has "experienced an > exception" because of "adverse weather conditions". And what about you? What have YOU experienced? Where do the corporate monkeys that write stuff like that come from? Sorry about your package. >> According to the UPS web site, my package has "experienced an >> exception" because of "adverse weather conditions". > > And what about you? What have YOU experienced? > > Where do the corporate monkeys that write stuff like that come from? [...] Maybe from the Buffalo campus of Balogna Univerity. They probably have BSs.  SignatureMaria C. >>> According to the UPS web site, my package has "experienced an >>> exception" because of "adverse weather conditions". [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Maybe from the Buffalo campus of Balogna Univerity. They probably have BSs. Balogna single truth, a typo certainly but a right good one. >>>> According to the UPS web site, my package has "experienced an >>>> exception" because of "adverse weather conditions". [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Balogna single truth, a typo certainly but a right good one. I thought I'd replied, but apparently I didn't. Had I done so, I would have said that I always misspell "bologna" despite Oscar Mayer's commercials. (And I misspelled "Mayer's" at first, too. I wanted "Meyer's.") Maria, who won the school spelling bee in 1955 and again in 1957. But I didn't win the county bees either time. (I wonder if "bologna" was what tripped on either occasion, but I wiped the offending words out of my memory years ago.) > According to the UPS web site, my package has "experienced an > exception" because of "adverse weather conditions". Remember, these words are offered as an excuse. 1. Apologising for late delivery may be cheaper for UPS than any steps to prevent its recurrence, thus preferred by UPS management. 2. It is nowadays widely believed that excuses are more acceptable when wordy, e.g. saying the delay was caused not just by weather but by adverse weather conditions. SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) Bob G set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time continuum: > According to the UPS web site, my package has "experienced an > exception" because of "adverse weather conditions". Is that the website of the delivery company or one dedicated to the purchase and operation of uninterruptible power supplies? If the latter it looked like it failed to cut in during a weather-induced power blip and you got the power cut anyway. If the former it means somebody's left your cake out in the rain and all the sweet green icing's flowing down. Signatureξ:) Proud to be curly Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply |
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