Friday morning musings

The appalling Madrid bombs yesterday seem to have completely taken over SKY / CNN news. Perhaps it's not on the scale of 9-11 but this is Europe's biggest terrorist incident since Lockerbie. And yet again, it's the innocent that are cruely wiped out, with victims from 11 different countries, on their daily trip to work. Something that is all too familiar over here, of course...

OK.

Have you ever caught yourself from sending an email to the wrong person? Perhaps you clicked 'Reply to all' instead of 'Reply', but then realised you had a whole bunch of extra recipients? Well, this girl managed to click the 'Reply to all' and subsequently include all her boyfriend's work colleagues in an 'intimate' response to one of his emails. This is bad enough. Imagine what it would be like if the media got hold of it, and then decided to run the story...

Something I might have to incorporate in my future English lessons:
"As businesses warn that teenagers use so much street and mobile phone slang that they are becoming unemployable, test yourself on modern English." Take the test.