"Britain Executed"

I saw the headline 'Amy Winehouse arrested in pantomine assault' just before Christmas. Conjured some amusing images. (Oh no it did not).

Bruce

(I just corrected the spelling of her name!)

There have been countless mistakes on the straplines lately. You would have thought the BBC would be the last to succumb to these shoddy production values.
Regards,
Steve.

It was spelled correctly in the American press I've read.
Go figure.
David

I worked at N24 for a few years. When you see the sort of people working there and the sort of stress they are under NOTHING is surprising.

Journalists are paid shit( a cleaner in London can earn more)nowadays and the people putting up these straps get paid peanuts for operating equipment which frequently breaks down. It's hardly surprising the BBC and the other news orgs do not attract the same calibre of people they used to. Welcome to the modern world!!

Sister xx

I do not for a moment devalue the critique of journalistic standards, but when it comes to the Chinese record on execution (the Briton concerned being the lastest of probably 5,000 executions in China this year alone), I can't help wondering whether mistakes in grammar and spelling are the most serious questions we should be asking...

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Originally posted by JWM:
I do not for a moment devalue the critique of journalistic standards, but when it comes to the Chinese record on execution (the Briton concerned being the lastest of probably 5,000 executions in China this year alone), I can't help wondering whether mistakes in grammar and spelling are the most serious questions we should be asking...

Hear Hear.

Chris N

That aside.....

I agree that it is a shameful episode, but probably left to another more serious thread - this one was only meant in jest, and if we have to curb our instincts for simple amusements because of what goes on out there, then the world would be even sadder, and the buggers will have won

There will always be worse things to worry about than grammar but standards should be upheld and the BBC should be the likeliest candidate as the last bastion of correct grammar.
The example I recall recently was 'universitity'. Hardly life threatening or world changing but simply not good enough IMO.
Regards,
Steve.

Come on, chaps, just about every second posting on the Naim site contains grammatical or spelling errors that a nine-year-old ought to be able to correct!

Some postings are close to incomprehensible.

Could Naim introduce a filter that would screen out comments by chavs who "would of" commented about this or that?

G

Oh just what we need another holier than though poster and grammer critic. Shit happens live with it. Oh a Hoppy Now Yeer,

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just about every second posting on the Naim site contains grammatical or spelling errors that a nine-year-old ought to be able to correct

And about every third someone does.

David

Missing the point a bit here guys. Standards in spelling and grammar have undoubtedly dropped since most of us were at school, BBC captions being a sad and obvious example. However it was inappropriate to use the announcement of somebody being executed as an illustration.

Maybe a better headline (and my all-time fav):
Senator's
pen is
busy
Yes, formatted like the above.
Referring to how many bills he had signed, likely, but it made for a memorable headline.
From sometime in the 1970s, American press, I don't have the details.
David

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Originally posted by BigH47:
Oh just what we need another holier than though poster and grammer critic. Shit happens live with it. Oh a Hoppy Now Yeer,

what about a snob filter

[/QUOTE] what about a snob filter[/QUOTE]

There's nothing snobbish about correctness. Is it snobbish to wish that the people maintaining the airliner, on which you are sitting at 35000 feet, have done their job correctly?

Thought not.

Poor grammatical constructs don't kill generally, but there is still a value in correctness. In business, for instance, I would rather deal with someone who expressed themselves correctly. I would take it as a proxy for the care they visit on their other undertakings - admitting that it is an imperfect proxy.

Fraser

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Missing the point a bit here guys. Standards in spelling and grammar have undoubtedly dropped since most of us were at school, BBC captions being a sad and obvious example. However, it was inappropriate to use the announcement of somebody being executed as an illustration.

People in glass houses...