Friday, November 26, 2010

Yet another new low

For the past few days I've been wading through the sludge of an "academic" paper on the natural gas industry - one of those editing tasks that feels more like writing the article from scratch.

The author doesn't even know the word pipeline.

1 comment:

Froog said...

He kept saying 'transmit tube', which sounded like a clunkily literal translation of a Chinese term. But, in fact, the Chinese seems to be 管道, which is fairly close to 'pipeline' - and doesn't include a verb element. Strange.