Will they (BBC) never learn!

Paul Herber

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:23:34 +0100, wrote:

>On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:01:58 +0100, Paul Herber
><> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:34:56 +0100, Owain
>><.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>Bob Eager wrote:
>>>> My wife gets wound up about the use of 'eck-setra'.....
>>>
>>>And I about the use of asterix for asterisk.
>>>
>>>I even had to email the University of Oxford asking them to correct
>>>their website.
>>
>>I'm surprised you had the gaul.
>Why are people so bothered so long as what they write or say is
>understandable personally I am not in the least bothered , I am
>convinced some people just love to find fault with anything and
> anybody .

er, sense of humour failure?


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CJM

Personally, I hate the general use of 'decimated'. Oh, that car bomb killed
precisely one in ten people in that market?!

Roger Mills

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
CJM <.uk> wrote:

> Personally, I hate the general use of 'decimated'. Oh, that car bomb
> killed precisely one in ten people in that market?!


Indeed. Many people seem to think that it means reducing *to* one tenth
rather than *by* one tenth - or maybe they confuse it with devastated?
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tinnews@isbd.co.uk

wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:01:58 +0100, Paul Herber
> <> wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:34:56 +0100, Owain
> ><.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>Bob Eager wrote:
> >>> My wife gets wound up about the use of 'eck-setra'.....
> >>
> >>And I about the use of asterix for asterisk.
> >>
> >>I even had to email the University of Oxford asking them to correct
> >>their website.
> >
> >I'm surprised you had the gaul.
> Why are people so bothered so long as what they write or say is
> understandable personally I am not in the least bothered , I am
> convinced some people just love to find fault with anything and

If it's just a typo then I'm not fussed at all, we all do that.

However there are cases where a mis-spelling or grammatical error can
make something ambiguous or difficult to understand. Getting it
correct does help at times.

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Chris Green

Roger Mills

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
<> wrote:

> Why are people so bothered so long as what they write or say is
> understandable personally I am not in the least bothered , I am
> convinced some people just love to find fault with anything and
> anybody .

Well a bit of punctuation wouldn't come amiss!

[Clue: full-stops, question marks, capital letters for new sentences, etc.]
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Mike Barnes

In uk.telecom, Roger Mills wrote:
>In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
>CJM <.uk> wrote:
>
>> Personally, I hate the general use of 'decimated'. Oh, that car bomb
>> killed precisely one in ten people in that market?!
>
>
>Indeed. Many people seem to think that it means reducing *to* one tenth
>rather than *by* one tenth - or maybe they confuse it with devastated?

They don't confuse it with anything, they just use it the way everyone
uses it. Words change their meaning over time, and although that word
*originally* meant only loss of one in ten, it now means heavy loss.
Look in any dictionary.

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Bob Eager

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:24:57 UTC, Paul Herber
<> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:23:34 +0100, wrote:

> >Why are people so bothered so long as what they write or say is
> >understandable personally I am not in the least bothered , I am
> >convinced some people just love to find fault with anything and
> > anybody .
>
> er, sense of humour failure?

Not at all. Clavox (Ron) doesn't have one, so it can't fail.

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GM6TRS

"Bob Eager" <> wrote in message
news:.co.uk...
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:24:59 UTC, Brian A
<>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:20:32 +0100, NoNeedToKnow
<me@private.invalid>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >London Marathon on BBC TV... across the screen they gave info
> > >for those interested in running, so show the number 0207 xxx xxxx
> > >and the website
> > >
> > >Aaargh! Who in the BBC is still unable to understand 020 is the
code?
> > >Seems like no-one there is aware. Seems they take the number (as
> > > 020 7902 0200 on the London Marathon site) and reformat it!
> > Sounds like you get irritated by the BBC's misuse of the numbering
> > system while I am constantly irritated by News 24's presenters who
> > replace the letter 't' with 'd' (e.g. god, ged, gedding,
> > Briddish,Scoddish, secredary, pudding, conservadive, + !n
others).
> > Remove 'no_spam_' from email address.
>
> I get annoyed at 'Feb-yoo-erry'....used by NatWest telephone
banking!

"Enter your PIN number" grates with me

Martin

Paul Herber

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:33:40 +0100, "GM6TRS" <gm6trsATclaradotcodotuk>
wrote:

>
>"Bob Eager" <> wrote in message
>news:.co.uk...
>> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:24:59 UTC, Brian A
><>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:20:32 +0100, NoNeedToKnow
><me@private.invalid>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > >London Marathon on BBC TV... across the screen they gave info
>> > >for those interested in running, so show the number 0207 xxx xxxx
>> > >and the website
>> > >
>> > >Aaargh! Who in the BBC is still unable to understand 020 is the
>code?
>> > >Seems like no-one there is aware. Seems they take the number (as
>> > > 020 7902 0200 on the London Marathon site) and reformat it!
>> > Sounds like you get irritated by the BBC's misuse of the numbering
>> > system while I am constantly irritated by News 24's presenters who
>> > replace the letter 't' with 'd' (e.g. god, ged, gedding,
>> > Briddish,Scoddish, secredary, pudding, conservadive, + !n
>others).
>> > Remove 'no_spam_' from email address.
>>
>> I get annoyed at 'Feb-yoo-erry'....used by NatWest telephone
>banking!
>
>"Enter your PIN number" grates with me

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M. J. Powell

In message <>, Brian A
<> writes
>On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:20:32 +0100, NoNeedToKnow <me@private.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>London Marathon on BBC TV... across the screen they gave info
>>for those interested in running, so show the number 0207 xxx xxxx
>>and the website
>>
>>Aaargh! Who in the BBC is still unable to understand 020 is the code?
>>Seems like no-one there is aware. Seems they take the number (as
>> 020 7902 0200 on the London Marathon site) and reformat it!
>Sounds like you get irritated by the BBC's misuse of the numbering
>system while I am constantly irritated by News 24's presenters who
>replace the letter 't' with 'd' (e.g. god, ged, gedding,
>Briddish,Scoddish, secredary, pudding, conservadive, + !n others).
>Remove 'no_spam_' from email address.

I am irritated by the BBC's use of:

"met with"

"outside of"

"either" when meaning 'each'

Mike
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