Here's a good One

A quote from my student's thesis. This is describing a very, very, very, basic device, not only for electrical engineers, but also to chemists who use this device for their own research.

A circulator has 3 input and output connections. The 1st input/output connector goes out the second input/output connector, the 2nd input/output connector goes out the 3rd input/output connection and the 3rd input/ output connector goes out the 1st connector. In order to use this as an isolator the 3rd connector is terminated so that anything coming in the first connector goes the second and anything coming into the second connector gets terminated.

Gack! I want to remind you that this was inserted in a Master's Thesis. Maybe you don't understand the operation of the device. That's not your job, when you write one of these things (a thesis) you write it with the expectation that your colleagues have a basic understanding of equipment. This student should have written (and which I substituted into their thesis) was: "The circulator was capped with a 50 Ohm terminator at output three".

Painful, verbal diarrhea.