Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Lost in translation

I don't typically post anything here about my work, but I need to make one exception (anonymity will be preserved). Today the following email went out to a couple hundred people:
We will start the presentation at 2:30 p.m. I apologize for the incontinence to you.
(In fairness, this was not a native English speaker, and God knows what kind of things I would inadvertently write if I had to do so in a second language...)