Cogito, Ergo Sumana for 2010 May 13 (entry 0)

# 13 May 2010, 05:55PM: Je Suis La Tour Eiffel: Two jokes from the hackfest, both rather picking on Vincent:

1. Vincent projected from his computer onto the big screen to demonstrate. GNOME windows and apps showed up, appropriately localised into French. "Oh, it's in French, I'm sorry," he said.

   Sumana: "I think that's the first time I've ever heard a Frenchman apologize for something being in French!"

   Ryan: "Yeah. Instead of 'It's French, I'm sorry,' you should have said, 'It's French, you're welcome.'"

2. We were writing talking points. I wrinkled my nose at the word "functionality" in someone else's draft. "Do users like that word?" I asked. Paul gave it the raspberry.

   Vincent said that the word "functionality" reminds him of a French speaker making up an English word. "In French, it sounds fine! Functionalité."

   Sumana: "Yeah, isn't that your national slogan? Liberté, Egalité, Functionalité."