I hate how some people cannot write coherent fucking sentences in an email. I wish I can vote them off to relearn English. When you're describing a fucking issue, you cannot use words like criss cross. WTF does that even mean?!!

Condescending.

I like it!

The best are the who leave out important.

@Nanos I am a native speaker, so I understand what criss cross means. But the original sender of this email used it in a context that infuriated me without additional details.

Exm: X is criss crossed does not give me sufficient information even with the word's meaning.

Crisscross this and you'll get the pattern.

Try to make sense out of this sentence.

Even if you add context so that "this" isn't undefined, pattern is a problem.

Yeah. Is it the one and only pattern I'll need to achieve? Is it one of many possible patterns? And so on.

Explaination of a word doesn't help.

Intentions should be precise.

I think that @rolexpo meant emails like that....

In germany there's a phrase: "jemandem alles aus der Nase ziehen müssen"

Translated word by word: "to drag all out of someones nose".

...worm something out of somebody ;)

@Nanos that cup observation is very interesting. Maybe I should carry around an empty mug whenever I'm expecting hostile forces.

My original rant was expressing frustration on my coworker describing an issue. When I got the email I just expected a lot more coherent sentences to describe the problem.

Exm: Instead of X is criss-crossed, it could be: Output of expected results are out of order. First entry is swapped with the last entry.

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