Athel Cornish-Bowden
2019-11-30 10:30:27 UTC
Dear Dr. Athel Cornish-BowdenïŒ do you interested in our ICG2020
conference? If this proposal session is your interested one, please
check the program online at http://bitcongress.com/ICG2020/. Can we
confirm about your attendance?
That is the last paragraph of an invitation to ICG2020. Quite apartconference? If this proposal session is your interested one, please
check the program online at http://bitcongress.com/ICG2020/. Can we
confirm about your attendance?
from the fractured English, what concerns me is that in the whole
message there is no indication of what ICG2020 is, and the link
provided doesn't work.
It turns out that there are quite a few congresses that call themselves
ICG2020. The first hit is the
13rd International Conference on Goats 2020 in Eger, Hungary
Then there are
ICG Annual Meeting 2020 in Kraków (which also neglects to mention what
it's about)
Annual Crystal Growth Conference in Torino
4th International Congress of Genetics (ICG-2020) in Dalian, China,
which is probably the one they mean)
But if I don't fancy Eger but do want to go to Hungary next year there
are the International Children's Games in Kecskemét.
International Conference on Geological barrier systems in Hannover at
the BGR (whatever that is -- they don't say)
International Conference on Gerontechnology: they don't say where that
is, but the .hk URL suggests Hong Kong.
International Cluster Games in Singapore
International Conference on Glass in Prague
International Conference on Geomembranes in Osaka
You may think I've cheated by putting the most plausible one in fourth
place, but no: I've listed them in the order that comes up in a search.
Why do people insist on using undefined abbreviations? The only
abbreviation I habitually use is "USA", as I figure that even people
who live in caves in Afghanistan (but have access to what I write) know
what that stands for. Now I think of it that's not the only one: one
can hardly avoid URL and DOI, for which the abbreviations are more
meaningful for people who see them than the things they standard for,
and I can hardly avoid CNRS.
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athel
athel