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This is a big, big pet peeve of mine. I just got this email inviting me to a BioMechanics conference. Here's a snippet :
"Checkered history" ?! Does this guy even know what that idiom means ?
I'm sure he meant "glorious" or "distinguished", but ended up giving us all the impression that the conference has previously been embroiled in controversy and shady happenings.
See what happens when you try to convince others you're smarter than you are ? You just end up looking like a great, big fool.
This Conference Series has a long and checkered history. We held the first conference in Aachen way back in 1978, and it was hosted by Prof Gunter Rao and the late Prof Helmut Reul. This will be the fifteenth conference in the Series, and we are looking forward to it being an exciting conference.
"Checkered history" ?! Does this guy even know what that idiom means ?
I'm sure he meant "glorious" or "distinguished", but ended up giving us all the impression that the conference has previously been embroiled in controversy and shady happenings.
See what happens when you try to convince others you're smarter than you are ? You just end up looking like a great, big fool.