There is this function on my computer at work which reads little pop-up alerts aloud to me if I don't respond to them right away. I noticed this a while back and thought it was kind of funny.
However, yesterday these alerts were raised to hilarious status when I realized that, to represent the little yellow triangle with an exclamation point that preceeds the message, the robot computer voice with the terrible pronunciation makes a really understated exclamation.
Fortunately, I was working on layout yesterday so there were about a zillion of these little alerts to listen carefully to. I don't think there's anything funnier than listening to a robot say "RATS", "BLAST", "pay-a-ten-tion" "OH-my" or my personal favourite "It's-not-my-fault"with the emphasis on all the wrong sy-LA-bles. Orrr maybe I've just been isolated in the back of this newsroom for a smidge too long.
Hard-TO-say.
