General Chat

I may be oldfashioned but I am heartily sick of the appalling mess our young reporters make of stories they write in our local paper. Spellings are consistently incorrect, break instead of brake, and similar, and place names are spelled wrongly, especially the name of my old school, the Hewett which was started in 1958, and is often called Hewitt! Road is written instead of Street and similar stupid errors made.

This paragraph made me look twice, can anyone spot the ridiculous wording here?

Lizx



Media Nightclub on the junction of Prince of Wales Road and Rose Lane has beaten to music every weekend since the 1970s under many different guises and brands.

Not just the newspapers Liz, we've been noticing the last couple of weeks the presenters of the BBC breakfast news can't seem to string two words together properly. Maybe they've been putting gin on their cornflakes, or else it's the scripts wot ave bin rote for 'em

Barb

you know i noticed that lately

i not brilliant at spselling , or grammer sometimes
but i get a bit miffed when i read something and it spelt wrong

like lately they taken to reporting forces personell of ranks as serjent
to me it always been seargent i think i spelt it right there, well it not a J thats for sure,
that to me is american

To my mind, when they get stuff wrong and it relates to accidents or people's names etc it's like a personal insult. I have complained several times, most ignore me but have had an apology and a correction made on one report.

So can anyone see what wording got my goat?

Lizx

What does beaten to music mean Liz, what a queer way of phrasing it.

Ann, that's the part that caught my eye, what a stupid way of putting it lol !

Isn't the English language the tool of their rade?

Would they like their doctor to examine them with a torch and a bit of fuse wire?

The reporters don't actually print the news. That's down to the printers, and the checker to rectify any mistakes.
Reporters have deadlines to meet, so mistakes are inevitable when they're writing their reports in a hurry.
So all the blame can't be laid at their feet surely.

***Julie*Ann***.sprinkling fairydust***

methinks its

"Sergeant"

Bob

Liz, I agree, The odd Typo is excuseable, but at times blatant misuse of grammar is to my mind UNforgiveable.....
I think that the old time proof readers are turning in their graves.....

Bob

although I recall a printer once getting it wrong with an Email address,on advertising material,in spite of the proof having been read and accepted by the customer, as @Peterbourogh

A printer doesn't make the mistake of writing Street instead of Road and the grammatical mistakes etc, or the error with the Hewett bit, or other errors like that.
Recently there was an article about M.E. and it mentioned fibromyalgia, it said the woman had a musical illness, I emailed the reporter to ask him more about it lol, he apologised and changed the online paper report.
As I mentioned on one thread, one of the reporters is a girl who now lives in my old family home and I have known her since she was 4. I said to her when I contacted her to say hello, that I got niggled about the errors but had never spotted any in her stuff and she said some of the reporters often get ticked off about incorrect spelling and wording, even getting facts wrong.

Yes being rushed can cause errors but I think a real journalist/reporter should try harder to get things right.

Lizx

This sort of thing has bothered me for several years

...... but you know, one of the problems is caused by computers.

We all have Spell Check ...... and everyone has got used to using that to check spellings


well, it does, but it doesn't check grammar, nor does it check that the word it says is correct is actually the right word!


Also, the old time editors at newspapers used to be reporters themselves earlier in their careers ..... no longer. Very often, some young kid is hired to an editor's position.

The chief Editor, or editor of a section may be great ....... but too often the joe job of everyday editing is left to someone who trusts Spell Check to do their job for them.


Hence break is accepted when it should be brake (or vice versa!)



sylvia