The Lexicon of Intentionally Ambiguous Recommendations
“He has the mental faculties of a man twice his age.”
“I would place him in the top 95 percent of students that I’ve taught over the years.”
“I would say that his real talent is getting wasted at his current job.”
i hope if someone is giving me a reccomendation, they don’t say anything about me getting wasted at work.
The only one of those that I understood was the third one. I know the first 2 are not compliments but I’m too thick to understand why…. so don’t ever use them if I ask you to recommend me.
Don’t worry. I would place you in the top 95 percent of interns that I’ve had in the last year.
Dave… your record speaks, well, of you.
Thank you. I’m sure you could not have recommended me more highly.
This book got me to thinking, I may not be a wordsmith on a level worth publication, but why should the author of this book have all the fun? The basic recipe is there. New goal: I want to live my life writing and saying things that have two possible yet opposite meanings. Or at least be incredibly vague.
One could call me the Don Quixote of epistemology. It might even be suggested that I mean less than a Seinfeld episode.
This is great! I’m going to start using the quomma for all my handwritten notes.
I hope that I set a high standard for future interns. The bar set high. Like the Elvis of interns, standards-wise.