But we have not even mastered our own language. Today I attended a presentation during which we had an, ahem, slight issue with English vocabulary.
A strong headline on a slide spoke to the competencies of the GITS, an apparently new acronym for our functional team.
Three people out of the twenty in the room caught the joke, including myself.
One said: "So now, what? We're a bunch of British morons?"
git
Noun. Usage: Brit
A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible- rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum [N. Amer], crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, bugger, sleazeball, sleazebag, slimeball, slimebag
Derived forms: gits
Type of: disagreeable person, unpleasant person
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