I was at a Slipknot gig on Friday so knew nothing of the result until I got out. From the sound of things me screaming along to ‘Surfacing’ was pretty much what I would have been screaming at the ref.
I'm a content writer. I make mistakes and some of them end up getting published, which is inevitable with a lack of dedicated subbing and quick turnaround times, but there's a vast difference between good writing with the odd error and writing that's just crap in general.
It's quite worrying that people are coming out of school unable to spell basic words or form sentences properly. The BFP are particularly bad for it, but you see ridiculous mistakes on the BBC all the time these days.
I once read something that was complaining about how stupid the youth were compared to the past. Can't remember the name of the article but it was written in the 1600's. Standards have been in decline for at least the last 500 years.
Having said that, the woman I recently met who thought 'anglophile' meant a person who was attracted to English children might indicate we have reached the end.
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Did no one spot this in the same article? 😂😂
I was at a Slipknot gig on Friday so knew nothing of the result until I got out. From the sound of things me screaming along to ‘Surfacing’ was pretty much what I would have been screaming at the ref.
It's going to be a long time before I forget that refereeing display
Someone will be on to soon say how it's OK because language evolves.
😂
I do find it amusing that the people who seem most put out by it seem to be the only ones who read it
and things like spelling and grammar are individual choices, not governed by some set of 'rules'.
I thought they were governed by @micra's rules!
I work in PR. A lot of national papers also aren't subbed.
Nonetheless, it's hard to fathom how someone gets this so wrong. I can't work out what they were even trying to say.
I'm a content writer. I make mistakes and some of them end up getting published, which is inevitable with a lack of dedicated subbing and quick turnaround times, but there's a vast difference between good writing with the odd error and writing that's just crap in general.
It's quite worrying that people are coming out of school unable to spell basic words or form sentences properly. The BFP are particularly bad for it, but you see ridiculous mistakes on the BBC all the time these days.
Let’s hope none of the BFP reporters ever look on hear. It’s not very constructive for them
We have a little chuckle on here at little errors or grammatical gufferations but they don't really matter in an informal setting.
But the amount of people you deal with professionally who don't know the basics is worrying.
I once read something that was complaining about how stupid the youth were compared to the past. Can't remember the name of the article but it was written in the 1600's. Standards have been in decline for at least the last 500 years.
Having said that, the woman I recently met who thought 'anglophile' meant a person who was attracted to English children might indicate we have reached the end.
Surely for professionals it's never been easier to look things up online, probably some over reliance on the spell checker.
I think that happened a while back when that lynch mob went after that paediatrician.
That was in (checks notes)....Portsmouth
It should be, "the number of people' not 'the amount of people'.