Another proper England rant...

**Clockwork** · 26th January 2006, 11:04

I've tried the thread search to see if anyone has mentioned this but I couldn't get it to work and 17 pages is just too much to trawl through but since we're on the subject, my pet hate is the misuse of ....

to & too

**MSTRS:Me** · 26th January 2006, 11:23

Originally Posted by Clockwork

I've tried the thread search to see if anyone has mentioned this but I couldn't get it to work and 17 pages is just too much to trawl through but since we're on the subject, my pet hate is the misuse of ....

to & too

That's two.....

**Hitcher** · 26th January 2006, 12:21

Originally Posted by Wolf

Not when you see a person accepted into a Journalism course at a tertiary institute whose handwriting is childish and has no idea of spelling, punctuation, grammar and common idiomatic phrases (so tried "rendring them fonetikly")

You should have a wee chat with Mrs H. She is a professional cleaner upper/rewriter of illiterate reporters.

**yungatart** · 26th January 2006, 12:27

That must be one HUUUGE job, judging by what I read/decipher in our local rag-proofreading doesn't seem to exist anymore.

**Hitcher** · 26th January 2006, 12:54

A big job that also includes assigning stories to pages, laying out pages, writing headlines, etc. And they're understaffed. So even with highly skilled people working their arses off, enough woopses get through to keep the letter-writing pedants happy.

**MikeL** · 26th January 2006, 13:17

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I thought that the sub-editor was an extinct species, and that reporters, at least on the daily newspapers, send their articles direct to the presses (with perhaps a brief excursion through Spell-Check, although even that seems doubtful...)

**MisterD** · 26th January 2006, 13:49

Originally Posted by MikeL

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I thought that the sub-editor was an extinct species,

You think the journo unions would allow their members to do the extra work involved in thinking up the stupid headlines?

**Wolf** · 26th January 2006, 14:35

Originally Posted by MisterD

You think the journo unions would allow their members to do the extra work involved in thinking up the stupid headlines?

What species of pillock is responsible for the writing of the "Scream Sheets"? In one of the folders in my filing cabinet at home I have a few howlers dreamed up by the folks at Waikato Slimes - a veritable study of ambiguous meanings that make an arrant liar out of my high-school English teacher who swore, with a perfectly straight face (the bastard), that the newspapers take care not to write ambiguous headlines and such.

Some of them are right up there with "If cold milk irritates your baby, boil it."

I also collected a few of the Slimes' reknowned "not news" ones like Politicians Lie and I've missed a few over the years.

It brings to mind the old saying (especially true of The Slimes) "Where do you find an intelligent, well written article in the [ insert name of local rag here ]?

In the "Letters to The Editor" page...

**Hitcher** · 26th January 2006, 14:41

Originally Posted by MikeL

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I thought that the sub-editor was an extinct species, and that reporters, at least on the daily newspapers, send their articles direct to the presses (with perhaps a brief excursion through Spell-Check, although even that seems doubtful...)

You are mistaken. Sub-editors are alive, albeit undervalued and endangered. Under your scenario, who is doing the page make-up?

**Hitcher** · 26th January 2006, 14:43

Originally Posted by MisterD

You think the journo unions would allow their members to do the extra work involved in thinking up the stupid headlines?

Sub-editors and reporters are all "journalists". Unfortunately the last two have become synonymous, again devaluing the significance and value of the poor down-trodden sub.

**MSTRS:Me** · 29th March 2011, 13:28

Came across this today and thought, what better thread to put it in...

**Katman** · 29th March 2011, 13:34

Has she not noticed she only has one cat?

**Maha** · 29th March 2011, 13:55

Dont know if it has been mentioned in this thread or not but...
The word Text (send or receive) is still text, not texted or that other term that has been thrust upon us of late...texes, even textes would have been a screem but texes?...

Dictionary definition..Text = to contact (a person) by means of a TEXT message.

You havent texted them nor have you texes them, you have text them.