How is journalism done these days? From the prevalence of dumb, easily spotted mistakes, I'd guess that it's voice to text with very little checking. It probably doesn't help that a lot of "helpful" programs with autocorrect will change things while and after writing.
BBC poor grammar - but FUNNY!
by BoogerMan 19 Replies latest social current
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Rivergang
They might sport a university qualification in journalism, yet cannot spell correctly if their lives depended on it.
Contrast that with my late mother, who -along with her siblings - never even attended high school. Yet, they were all meticulous with their spelling. By Crikey, but if one of their sons or daughters made a spelling mistake, the reaction was almost as if you had printed a naughty word!
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Listener
The editor used to be responsible for this.
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NotFormer
Listener, yes, and they used to have sub-editors who went through articles with a fine-toothed comb.
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enoughisenough
so I think it was an newcastor who used the word irregardless for the word regardless, and somehow the word irregardless ( which wasn't a word? ) has stuck in people's vocabulary
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Vidiot
Ten bucks says “irregardless” will show up in some dictionary or other before too long.
“All words are made-up.” - Chris Hemsworth, Avengers: Infinity War
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Vidiot
Which reminds me…
… is “misunderestimate” officially a word, yet?
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Vidiot
Here’s another:
Why… and how… would an embassy (regardless of where it was) kill a guy just for attacking a crossbow?
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FragrantAddendum
he means "dis-service" department
gb is not faithful neither are they discreet
they are unfaithful and brazen
he means ill-legal department
philip brumley is a law breaker
he and his dept break both jehovah's laws and caesar's laws
wt-land: they are poor and funny/ridiculous/morallystupid
fakers
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NotFormer
Vidiot, I looked that one up, it was so badly phrased. The embassy didn't do Jack, it was Serbian police that shot the guy. Can journalists even journal any more?
And the poor crossbow! 😭😞