Originally Posted by FlyJSH

So, yet another email to payroll. A few minutes later, I get a reply:

"Translated......"

I write the sender and ask what "Translated..." means. She responds:

"Your email came over to us in German and I translated it for the group so we can begin working on it. See below."

Amazing, I haven't written a word auf deutsch in 25 years, yet somehow I managed to draft a note, send it, AND (most amazing of all) a payroller figured out what happened and translated.

And my keyboard doesn't even have an umlaut.