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27  09 2004

It works for me

My team at work is pretty international. The other day Roberto, whose office is next to mine, wrote It works for me on his whiteboard. Someone had reported a bug to him but he couldn’t reproduce it. (What he meant by “It works for me” was, “It works on my machine.”) Later he wrote the equivalent phrase in Portuguese, his mother tongue. Before long nearly a dozen languages were represented in translation on his whiteboard.

I sliced up the photo below to omit the languages (such as my Mexican Spanish) that the speaker had acquired by instruction and/or in adulthood. That still leaves six languages spoken natively within a team of eight developers, two QA specialists and two DBAs.

It’s actually seven because Texas is “like a whole other country.” end of entry

“It works for me” in seven languages


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