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via languagelog:

Very crude, very childish, but still made stuff come out of my nose, especially some of the photo examples toward the bottom of the page:

Very, very unfortunate Chinese mistranslation into English. NB - not necessarily safe for work, though only due to use of "bad" language.

Lucky old ginger water, that's what I say...

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In the recent saga of the housing notes (aka Caroline Flint Really Screws It Up), one thing that struck me was a quote of hers at the time:

"These notes represented expert opinion, and were not official forecasts"

Now which of those two things would you be more likely to trust?