A fork of Rural Dictionary
Internationalization. The process of making software adaptable to the requirements of different human languages, local customs, and character string encodings.
(There are 18 characters between the first "i" and the last "n".)
With Microsoft Word 2003's great i18n features, translating documents from Arabic into Japanese is child's play.
Person who restores one's faith in the opposite sex after a series of bad relationships.
Fran: So it was his idea for you to round off the romantic break in New York with an afternoon's shopping in Macy's? Jesus, that guy is a total faith healer!
Lil: Yup.
How a traditional male feels when a traditional female makes an unambiguous sexual overture.
See also flummoxed.
"Er, well, obviously, I'm flattered. Goodness, is that the time?"
1. time additional to the time that has been planned or paid for.
2. a regular promotion at Clinique counters where you buy two skincare products you were planning to buy anyway and get yet another cheap make-up bag full of samples.
3. the moment you discover that the sweet, handsome, kind and amusing guy you've been dating happens to be hung like a horse.
1. "More than a month into bonus time after a successful primary mission on Mars, NASA's Spirit rover has sighted possibly layered rock in hills just ahead."
2. "It's Bonus Time at the Clinique counters at participating Dillard's in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the Memphis, TN area."
3. "WOAH!!!......marry me, baby."
A woman comedian for whom no allowances need to be made. A brilliant observer of social types in modern Britain...she drills into the kind of people you normally skirt around and taps the wellspring of their irritating nature. Rarely has an apprenticeship with the Royal Shakespeare Company been put to such good use. The nation should immortalize her in Cockney rhyming slang.
"Sorry I'm Catherine, the traffic was awful."
or
"Can't come out tonight, I've got a Catherine."
or
"You're looking Catherine, have you lost Catherine?"
Seemingly inexhaustible source of polite, well-educated, hard-working, low-cost technical talent.
Should perhaps be renamed Boss's-perfect-IT-man-galore.
"Another three arriving from Bangalore on Monday morning, Susan. Sort out their induction packs for me, would you?"