31 Oct
2002
31 Oct
'02
16:58
On Thursday 31 October 2002 11:01, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 31 October 2002 16.54, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
But for those of us who are members of the CopyEditors mailing list, "cow-orkers" has been a standing joke for about the last seven years.
It's a Dilbert gag, isn't it?
I think Dilbert was not yet a gleam in Scott Adams' eye when I first read "cow-orkers" for co-workers. The CopyEditors' list has thousands of members, who live/work in hundreds of industries, so it's not surprising that that kind of lore would get picked up in Dilbert, as well. Originally, it was just a jab at how badly the spell-checkers and hyphenation routines used to garble the language. Things have improved. :-) /kevin