Grammatical error and infantile spelling

Big Vern · **Joined:** Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:49 am **Posts:** 807

Anybody else noticed it's getting worse by the week in the Daily Fail?
Just look at the this beauty from today:
Fourth paragraph down, the spelling of 'hire purchase'
:lol:

Abernathy · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:30 am

As if there's a hierarchy of types of purchase. Suffering Jeebus and the orphans.

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Lily Allen comes over all shy at Big Chill as she performs last gig before motherhood

Quote:

Racy lady: Lily has previously favoured more racier looks for her onstage outfits

Fflaps · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:05 pm

That's even more worser than the higher purchase one!

<sorry>

crabcakes_windermere · **Joined:** Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:56 pm **Posts:** 2074

Fflaps wrote:

That's even more worser than the higher purchase one!

<sorry>

More worser? I think you'll find the word is "wrongerer"

Picklechu2 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:01 pm **Posts:** 639

double comparative is > comparative, but < superlative.

Timbo · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:56 pm

Picklechu2 wrote:

double comparative is > comparative, but < superlative.

And maths is an abbreviation of Mathematical Anti-Telharsic Harfatum Septomin

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 2:47 pm

Functional Union Concerning Kinetic Engineering Roles Surely?

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:38 pm

Sounds like something from the Campaign for the Liberation of Itinerant Treedwellers, itself an offshoot of Liberate Apes Before Imprisoning Apes.

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Not grammatical errors or infantile spelling, just piss-poor journalism:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... l#comments

Quote:

The former Arsenal player, 46, was axed from his nightly show, Live at Studio 5, after a row with executives

Quote:

A spokesman for Wright told the Mail: 'Ian will no longer be appearing on Live at Live 5.'

The show is actually called Live From Studio Five. I've never watched it and even I know that.

Big Vern · **Joined:** Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:49 am **Posts:** 807

Hold up, if we're going to include piss poor journalism in this thread it could reach 20,000 posts inside a month!

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... -Stig.html

Quote:

To its fans, Top Gear might be a Ferrari of a show, to its detractors a Cortina-esque dinosaur - but to its accountants, investors and to the BBC it's a juggernaut of a money machine.

SInce 1994, long-distance lorry drivers and cabbies have been able to purchase

THE STIG

When it comes to the 'Top Gear' brand, it's not Jeremy Clarkson's craggy face that sells. nor even Richard Hammond slightly cuter features. It's The Stig's anonymous mask.

The unfinished phrase starting with 'SInce' [sic] appears seemingly at random. It belongs further down in the article:

Quote:

FROM BOOKS TO CDs

SInce 1994, long-distance lorry drivers and cabbies have been able to purchase their very own road-cruising soundtracks, with the release of umpteen Top Gear compilation CDs

Fail!

EDIT: And there's more:

Quote:

FRoM boys' toys to kids' toys, the Top Gear marketing engine hasn't just got grown men cornered, but youngsters too. you could buy a basic Top Gear Scalextric set for £89.99. and in January this year, Top Gear: Turbo Challenge magazine was launched for children - a fortnightly publication at £2.50 a pop with games, strips and trading cards to collect and swap.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:45 am

Quote:

He's just another looser the Labour Party are welcome to him.

- Howard, South East Asia

Loser/looser - it ain't hard! And the lack of punctuation runs two phrases together. Argh!
And another one from Thailand, by the look of it...

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:40 pm

Here's a good 'un. And this one's from the Guardian!

Quote:

Why is it just two of the other leadership candidates giivng these plastic politic-bred cut-outs of real peopel? Are Labour going to sit back and invite the worse possible scenario as they did with Brown? This is amazing, both Milibands are SOOOO unot Labour it beggar's belief, they could both sit on the left of the Conservatives (as many Lib dems are now doing). Where is the REAL labour party? Don't any of then give a tinker's cuss about thier history? their raison d'être? About the poeple Blair et al spat on and gave the finger?

Not to mention general incoherence...

Do you think he might have drink taken?

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:49 pm

Well it is the Grauniad, what do you expect?

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