Holly ([info]ercasse_ainince) wrote,
@ 2007-08-29 12:16:00
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Current mood:slightly amused

Diamonds in the Rough
Proofing transcriptions is not exactly an amusement-filled task, but rare moments of humor intrude. I once had a typist to use the word "pneumonic" in place of the more appropriate "mnemonic," and I went into a fit of giggles imagining that "Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally" might be used to assist the lungs rather than the memory.

Today I've had two instances of homophone humor. The typist has the attorney asking whether someone's cognitive function is "in tact," causing me to question whether this person's mind is perhaps crude and boorish. But my favorite is the mentioning of "sleep depravation." Yes, this person's sleep is in the process of becoming depraved. Let's hope she's not a somnambulist.


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[info]rangerwickett
2007-08-29 08:46 pm UTC (link)
I'm going to have to use that 'sleep depravation' line somehow.

I had to Google to remind myself what Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally is for. However, I bet you don't know "Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me." It's a mnemonic for the classes of stars: O, B, A, F, G, K, and M (Blue, blue-white, white, yellow-white, yellow, orange, and red). The sun is a G5, I believe.

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[info]firebreatherjen
2007-08-30 04:44 am UTC (link)
My favorite mnemonic was "Grab All Blue Pens In Joyner Hall," to help those of us in Old English remember the sound changes.

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[info]ercasse_ainince
2007-08-30 01:24 pm UTC (link)
Don't forget "Never go down an incline," which is to help remember noun cases. I was better able to remember with the "incline" mnemonic, but another with which our class came up was "No good dogs are impotent."

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