Another possibly apocryphal case of linguistic collisions resulting in governmental interest: When the MIT Media Lab started doing work on intelligent kitchen counters, they found that a lot of shadowy government agencies wanted to talk to them about their research into "counter intelligence".
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He's presumably had problems with people confusing "decompression bombs" with the blowy-up kind and sending him panicky e-mails.
Another possibly apocryphal case of linguistic collisions resulting in governmental interest: When the MIT Media Lab started doing work on intelligent kitchen counters, they found that a lot of shadowy government agencies wanted to talk to them about their research into "counter intelligence".
Ah, of course. That didn't even cross my mind, for some reason; bomb in this context was so obviously not a physical device.