Comments on: Reset

By: Gordianus

Gordianus — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:55:50 +0000

As someone who smuggled a cup with the Prozak logo into the hands of an irksome boss at a public meeting, let me suggest another possibility for the wrong wording on that button.

By: TGGP

TGGP — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:34:51 +0000

Walt has a post on meaningless apologies here.

By: Daniel Larison

Daniel Larison — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:55:04 +0000

Thanks for the correction. Outraged may have been the wrong word. I would say that his remark about the Bush administration is typical of the sort of mock outrage of the “just imagine what so-and-so would say if Bush did that” variety that we’ve seen a lot lately.

And, yes, one would hope that there are still some people in the State Department who know Russian fluently and should have caught this. The strangest thing for me is that the Russian word was spelled in the Latin alphabet, and they still managed to get it wrong.

By: kenb

kenb — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:46:03 +0000

I assume the first hyperlink was supposed to go here. Doesn't really seem particularly outraged to me...

By: cbh8377

cbh8377 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:09:15 +0000

WRW gets it right. I’m pleased to see the attempt to help relate more positively to the Russians. But I’m stunned that State couldn’t get this one right; certainly we have native-fluency speakers of all major languages there. Right?

By: David Tomlin

David Tomlin — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:57:47 +0000

A button? Was the gallows humor intentional?

By: WRW

WRW — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:36:53 +0000

I agree with you, Daniel, but it’s still rather ridiculous; perhaps mostly because the State Department couldn’t produce a person familiar enough with Russian to get the word right.