That Moment...

I like the theory that people are promoted to their level of incompetence. I've certainly seen it in action in my last two places of work.

I like it.

Prompt: Lands for forming, cows for living, inns for gusts.

 

Have you read his debut novel?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06X9H5ZMZ/?tag=writingfor07a-20

I put his first paragraph into Google translate, turned it into Urdu (cos he seems to be from Hyderabad) and back again, and got this...

A beautiful village of white water flow surrounded by mountains, village is famous for its craftsmanship, land to form, cow for cow, inns for gases, under house hadees from village house Hazel Yes, and the village is crying

Is it just me, or is this version better?

 

Also, TMW a perfectly good image of a dragon is destroyed by a giant e in the middle of his face.

 

I took my flash piece "Lineup" and chucked it through Google translate into Japanese and back and got this (this is not a request for critique, just posting for a laugh):

 

Ooh, I like this game! I choose Chinese...

"She turned her head and sat up with a bastard."

 

bahahahaha, I knew you guys would get a kick out of this. My favorite part is "an old age stone with strange signs which no one couldn't figure out." So....everyone could figure them out then. lol

 

I chose Russian...

"Liam Romain was three desperately boring days in a four-day patrol from the Stormwind Citadel, when his life began. He was almost dozing on the back of his infernal hike, a huge, beast-like beast, leisurely walking through the mud, when hilly hills, seen by occasional rocks and trees, slowly slid by. When the shadowy landscape appeared before his hellish curtain and lowered the traces of dirt at a speed that Liam could not imagine, Garmr, his hellish hard, jumped forward after the ghost with a ferocious growl. Liam made an insane seizure of the reins, so as not to fall."

"a huge beast-like beast" and "hilly hills" hahahah

 

A beast-like beast? That's, like, top-level beastiness.

I had some hellish curtains. They attracted cat hair like nobody's business.

 

I'm so making this game a new thread. Look for it in a few min and come play.

 

Col. Kurtz? I think you've said worse.

 

I'm a snail crawling along the edge of a straight razor, and don't you forget it.

 

And Martin Sheen was really drunk and having a mental breakdown in the hotel room. Fucked up his hand pretty good punching that mirror.

 

Wait, you mean to say that you think that someone who would try and sell five pages of unreadable gibberish for a buck would stoop so low as to snag a picture of a dragon off the net, without compensation, and badly splash a title over top of it?

Nah, I'm sure (s)he either drew it themselves, or properly contracted out the cover.

 

TMW after you see rumors about how The Last Jedi might turn out to be...

Is it too early to be writing a mock-script poking fun at what I think 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' might wind up becoming?

 

... when you've checked all your replies on the forum and have no more excuses not to open your WIP and start writing.

 

I feel ya bro

 

TMW a senior colleague not only neglects to acknowledge your significant contribution to a major project that will save the customer approximately 1 million dollars this year, but they STEAL THE F*CKING STATS from your Business Review and present them as their own work.

This is ten times worse than the hamburger/teapots thing upthread. I escalated to management because no way is this douche canoe going to get accolades for something he had only the most minuscule involvement in.

Also, TMW you wish you could make enough money writing to quit your stupid job where only idiots get promoted.

 

Different douche canoe, though definitely the same breed.