Funny story about a Curator:
I was a member at the Art Institute of Chicago. Went to see a major exhibit and noticed a small exhibition on Industrial Design from Japan. Among the various tools, machines, and other gadgets was one labeled "Industrial Razor". I was quite puzzled as to what an Industrial Razor could be used for when it dawned on me that probably the name was dictated over the phone and, because Asians often have trouble pronouncing our letter L, it was more likely an Industrial Laser, but sounded like razor when the Japanese contact talked about it. It looked a lot like it could be a laser level- something with which I am rather familiar.
After a good laugh, I, being the conscientious Member that I was, called the museum on Monday to bring this potentially embarassing error to their attention, and was surprised to find myself actually talking to The Curator of that exhibit. I explained my idea and listened as the curator mulled the situation over: "Hmmm, I see... Razor... Laser... We'd have to make a new label... " (and then rather quickly) "Okay- thank you for bringing this to our attention"
I'm confident nothing was ever done about it, so have rather lowered my level of respect for the scholarship of museum curators.
I know that Chinese are embarassed by this kind of thing and work very hard to try to avoid it. Here was a case of the same thing happening in reverse in the US!