"Hamburg police shoot man with axe ahead of Euros match." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
Why don't German police just use guns?
Better: Man with axe shot by German police. 😄
BBC poor grammar - but FUNNY!
by BoogerMan 19 Replies latest social current
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BoogerMan
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St George of England
What do you expect, it's the BEEB.
More concerned with inclusion, pronouns and other left wing twaddle.
George
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Diogenesister
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What do you expect, it's the BEEB.
More concerned with inclusion, pronouns and other left wing twaddle.
In recent years I've been absolutely gob smacked at the standard of work (grammar etc)produced by editorial writers, not just the BBC but at almost all the established agencies we are used to getting our news from in the UK. Especially the Broadsheets. At first I assumed they were Eastern 'content farms' or whatever. Or A.I. generated....but no! These shameless imposters who generally begin their bio's by "AS A ...(insert identity here: "Trans, left handed wombat of colour" or whatever) actually put their NAME to their "work". Then proceed to hector us on the definite understanding we have ZERO right of reply 🙄 -
Rivergang
This dumbing down of reporting is not just confined to the UK. While going through some of my father’s old things, I came across a newspaper cutting from the year 1959. The contrast in standards between that and modern reporting was startling.One of the reasons I no longer read newspapers! -
Phizzy
What amazes me is the BBC employs people as Broadcasters who on serious Programmes Mispronounce words ! Blimey, surely correct pronunciation is one of the minimum requirements ?
I have too many times heard "Bought" instead of "Brought", why drop the "R" ? we don't say "Bing that over here please" do we ?
The other one is "Nucular" instead of "Nuclear", but the most ironic is :
"Pronounciation" instead of, obviously, "Pronunciation".
Up your Game the Bollocks Broadcasting Corporation !
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BoogerMan
@ Phizzy - my favourite is when they add the letter ' r ' into "drawing" - pronouncing it as "drawring." 😁
Mind you, February being pronounced as Feb-you-ary (eliminating the ' r ') is just as bad!
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Diogenesister
Here's one I found this morning. The elderly woman was knocked out by two men in a road rage fight. Two policeman were nearby. It's written as if it was thactualthe police knocked her out. This was in The Independent - a British broadsheet newspaper.
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NotFormer
Diogenesister, that quoted caption doesn't even work properly as a sentence. Let alone the fact that it reads wrongly in a factual sense. To quote the professor in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe: " What are they teaching in schools these days?"
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stan livedeath
my favourite nonsense is on facebook, when a writer might put "does any1 no where i can get ***?"
i usually reply
" no--dont u no ? i dont no iver. no body nose."
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Vidiot
The medias are wrong-wording stuff?
That’s unpossible!