Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
A foreign-born "English as a second language" person, that I used to work with, used WordPerfect's spell check to correct her errors. She once sent a letter to her landlord that was supposed to be about "The leak in the kitchen". She spelled the words wrong, and she picked choices from the program that changed the sentence to, "The link in the chicken". The rest of the letter was just as bad, and she sent it out like that. She was promoted to a lower management position a few years ago, thanks to the company "Diversity" program.
I had a coworker who spoke English as a second language and liked to use English euphemisms. She never quite got them right. She would say things like, "I heard it through the graveyard." Or, "Bob won't be able to attend the meeting because he is up to his head." It was a source of great amusement.