A 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...
Posted on England Expects
Thursday, 14 August 2008
No human damage! and other linguistic shenanigans