Scientists tend to use language in precise and idiosyncratic ways, and when you add to that the language barrier - this seems much ado about nothing. I remembe

Scientists tend to use language in precise and idiosyncratic ways, and when you add to that the language barrier - this seems much ado about nothing. I remember a German colleague being reprimanded over his usage of "you people" in a mass email - apparently it means something different and more friendly in the German from which he mentally translated it.