"Kopi is the next generation multi-purpose service-oriented universal programming langage for rapidly developing software in shortest possible time at cost of fractions of otherwise man-light-year efforts."
Oh...?! Well, in fact Kopi is just to help me and (hopefully) you order Kopi in Kopi shops (Kopi is the blended coffee in Singapore).
The first paragraph is also a "typical" sentence you can find in many bid documents. I am involved in writing one at this moment. Deadline rings yet my colleagues and I find ourselves from time to time doing anything else but working on the docs (sounds familiar?!)
The below resulted from an after-lunch session when the inspirations of writing are "at valleys": we managed to work out the syntax for ordering Kopi on the whiteboard.
| | O (Hokkien) | Gao (Hokkien) | Siew3 Tai(Cantonese) | Geh Teng(Hokkien) | C (English) | Kosong(Malay) | Peng(Hokkien) | Halia(Malay) |
| Water | | Less | | | | | | |
| Coffee | | More | | | | | | |
| Condense Milk | No | | | | No | | | |
| Evaporated Milk | No | | | | Yes | | | |
| Sugar | | | Less | More | | No | | |
| Ice | | | | | | | Yes | |
| Ginger | | | | | | | | Yes |
Credit also goes to oc and at.
The rule of thumb is that you can combine any column from the header, as long as there are no two columns having conflicting row entries.
eg Kopi O Gao Siew Tai is coffee black (no milk), thicker (less water, more coffee) and less sugar!
eg Kopi Siew Tai Kosong means "syntax error"!
[Post started on Apr 03, published on May 08, upon return of business trip]
Posted
May 08 2008, 10:24 AM
by
blackinkbottle