Comments on: Lost in translation

By: susie

susie — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:12:21 +0000

I got one of these for Christmas as well. My copy was folded so weird that I couldn’t even read the words on the plastic. Now I know I didn’t miss much :)

By: Will Benton

Will Benton — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:06:41 +0000

Yeah, I don’t know why “mails” sounds so terrible. Also, I don’t know why I’ve gotten email spam touting Bangladeshi accounting software that uses American English more idiomatically and proficiently than this USPS stationery, but there you go. I’m thrilled, though, that you caught the Palmer allusion.

By: t

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:53:49 +0000

” That gum you like is going to come back in style.”

Awesome. So. Awesome.

“In particular, “loose in the mails” sounds like it might refer to a common intestinal ailment of Elizabethan England.”

This will keep me laughing all afternoon. Thanks for the post, Will!