Re: Writing Quote/Apologies

[Kathleen Frost <kfrost -at- BTSQUARED -dot- COM>]

To all of you who wrote to me about an ad I quoted yesterday, attributig
the piece to Moliere, my apologies.  I simply didn't know.  I've never read
anything by Moliere and took the quote for what it was, just an ad in a
magazine.  I appreciate the correction.  It's good to know we have such
literate people sharing information on this list!  Keep the good stuff
coming.

One more piece of personal business.
Yesterday, I made a comment about everything needing a writer of some kind
(example: instructions on a bath mat) and I asked if anyone had thought of
editing the instructions that come from Taiwan and China since some of the
translations come out quite funny sometimes.  I didn't think until later in
the day that I might have offended someone who worked very hard to
translate between two such diverse languages.  (I should know better, I
spent nearly a year working in Hong Kong and admire anyone who could speak
both a tonal language like Cantonese and a rule-making/rule-breaking
language like English.  I tried very hard but didn't do very well at it.)
If I offended anyone, I am truely sorry.  It was meant only as an amusing
comment.  Please accept my deeply felt apology.

Kathy Frost
KFrost -at- BTSquared -dot- com

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