Matt Brown said: "You can blog about whatever you wish, as long as it is related to science and research". His wish is my command! Here are some snippets from my life as a cancer research grant wrangler in Vancouver. Mostly the silly bits.
This amused me:
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The puzzle of the lost translation was solved by the first commenter on the original post, who explained that “inconvenience = gêne in French, not gène.”
As in “Your knowledge of English is just fine, it’s your accent that’s the problem”.
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I think they should apologise to Gene as well.
If gene was caused by the works, does that make him genetically engineered?
Oh, good one! I love those websites :)
lol…that’s funny…thanks for sharing!
LOL@Brian.
Parisian conveniences are bad enough, I’m having a hard time imagining their inconveniences.
Is the note from the “Society for the exploitation of the Eiffel Tower” or am I an even worse translator?
I don’t know what the exact translation would be, but that’s a nice image!
Towers of the world, unite!