Does noboody proof read anymore???

[911motorsport]

A quick sweep of the news items on Google reveals some truly woeful standards of Grammar and spelling

A shocking and very sad item in the Mirror on-line today is a good example! (and it's one of their lead stories)!

"Cynically"!!!???

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/03/1...

[illmonkey]

Its the mirror...

[Bill]

911motorsport said:

A quick sweep of the news items on Google reveals some truly woeful standards of Grammar and spelling

A shocking and very sad item in the Mirror on-line today is a good example! (and it's one of their lead stories)!

"Cynically"!!!???

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/03/1...

You didn't check how to spell cynically before you posted that did you??

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cynically

[TonyHetherington]

illmonkey said:

Its the mirror...

Awesome. I'm quoting that before you edit it.

[patmahe]

I think its the quick turnaround required on stories means as soon as its typed its posted and we'll check spelling later if we get a chance.

[Justayellowbadge]

[bonsai]

patmahe said:

I think its the quick turnaround required on stories means as soon as its typed its posted and we'll check spelling later if we get a chance.

I read that a lot of online articles now (including bbc) are generated from voice to text.

[DrTre]

Standard of online journalism is shocking, and the broadsheets are as bad. Spelling, grammar, "less/fewer" etc etc, just basic English. Not really sure what it takes to be a journalist nowadays but apparently it's very little.

[911motorsport]

Justayellowbadge said:

[TonyHetherington]

bonsai said:

patmahe said:

I think its the quick turnaround required on stories means as soon as its typed its posted and we'll check spelling later if we get a chance.

I read that a lot of online articles now (including bbc) are generated from voice to text.

Wouldn't that automatically have grammar and spelling, and probably "language" checks too if it was for such huge organisations?

[911motorsport]

Bill said:

911motorsport said:

A quick sweep of the news items on Google reveals some truly woeful standards of Grammar and spelling

A shocking and very sad item in the Mirror on-line today is a good example! (and it's one of their lead stories)!

"Cynically"!!!???

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/03/1...

You didn't check how to spell cynically before you posted that did you??

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cynically

I don't understand your point? I have spelt it correctly. It's the use of the word that is incorrect, not the spelling. I imagine the 'author' of that item meant to use the word 'clinically' rather than cynically.

Edited by 911motorsport on Friday 19th March 10:56

[Justayellowbadge]

Nope, he meant cynically.

[Bill]

911motorsport said:

I don't understand your point? I have spelt it correctly. It's the use of the word that is incorrect, not the spelling. I imagine the 'author' of that item meant to use the word 'clinically' rather than cynically.

I assumed you were questioning the spelling. Either way, from the definition I posted: Cynically - callously calculating.

[rhinochopig]

911motorsport said:

Bill said:

911motorsport said:

A quick sweep of the news items on Google reveals some truly woeful standards of Grammar and spelling

A shocking and very sad item in the Mirror on-line today is a good example! (and it's one of their lead stories)!

"Cynically"!!!???

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/03/1...

You didn't check how to spell cynically before you posted that did you??

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cynically

I don't understand your point? I have spelt it correctly. It's the use of the word that is incorrect, not the spelling. I imagine the 'author' of that item meant to use the word 'clinically' rather than cynically.

Edited by 911motorsport on Friday 19th March 10:56

Have a look at definition No. 2 "Selfishly or callously calculating"

[DrTre]

Cynically works. It's overly emotive (as is the rest of the article), but it's not wrong.

[bonsai]

TonyHetherington said:

bonsai said:

patmahe said:

I think its the quick turnaround required on stories means as soon as its typed its posted and we'll check spelling later if we get a chance.

I read that a lot of online articles now (including bbc) are generated from voice to text.

Wouldn't that automatically have grammar and spelling, and probably "language" checks too if it was for such huge organisations?

You'd hope so, I found it hard to believe there's a system good enough to translate to the standard most BBC articles are at when that Text -> Voice company failed so badly recently.

[maix27]

To be honest, you usually find that the bottom end of the market actually has the best Subs... mainly because the journalists are a bunch of fk wits.

I used to be a Sub myself and it seemed common knowledge that the best ones actually worked for men's mags like FHM...

Most online stuff, however, is self edited, leaving a lot of room for error. Haymarket, to be fair to them, have some very good Sub-Editors.

[illmonkey]

TonyHetherington said:

illmonkey said:

Its the mirror...

Awesome. I'm quoting that before you edit it.

This is a website for general chat. The mirror is meant to be a publication.

[911motorsport]

Perhaps that wasn't the best example then. I'll find another. Having said that, I have never previously thought of the act of chasing someone down as being a cynical one! And I sat the Oxford English Paper (gaining a distinction) and I am the director of two businesses involved with publishing.

Edited by 911motorsport on Friday 19th March 11:12

[Bill]

911motorsport said:

Perhaps that wasn't the best example then.

What with there being nothing wrong with it, you mean?

911motorsport said:

I am the director of two businesses involved with publishing.

Two directorships??