Thursday 14 August 2008

No human damage! and other linguistic shenanigans

click here to go to the blogA week after the event, and a couple of days after the story started to come out (what took them so long I wonder?) the Parliament services have finally put out a statement about the collapse of the Strasbourg hemicycle chamber ceiling. It includes the following glorious phrase. "Fortunately, the incident caused no human damage." But eurocratese doesn't stop there...

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