Engrish?

My dad got into a minor accident the other night, and my mom tried to call me on my cellphone. My dad’s fine, but the thing that got me was the email my mom sent me telling me she tried to call:

“I called your cellophane earlier.”

It took me a couple days to realize what that really said. Who’s worse, the person who wrote it, or the person who reads it and thinks it’s right?