Author Topic: Spelling that makes you cringe (Read 171894 times)

Peter · « **Reply #900 on:** 10 August, 2020, 11:07:49 am »

Got both versions in one BBC report yesterday. ("The BBC is an equal opportunities employer.....)

Andrij · « **Reply #901 on:** 10 August, 2020, 11:56:56 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 10 August, 2020, 11:03:19 am

Hear's won... Sorry, here's one in Polish:
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Tymczasem państwowa agencja informacyjna Biełta poinformowała na swoim kanale na Telegramie, że Łukaszenko udał się dziś z wizytą gospodarską do siedziby holdingu rolniczego pod Mińskiem. "Łukaszenka zapozna się z realizacją projektu inwestycyjnego dotyczącego nowoczesnej produkcji rolnej w BNBK - [Białoruska narodowa biotechnologiczna korporacja -red.]" - podawała Biełta.
There's no consensus on whether to call him Lukashenko or Lukashenka, but at least pick one and stick to it.

His name in Belarusian is Лукашэнка (Lukashenka), but often Russified as Лукашенко (Lukashenko). Guess which language is more often translated into English?

Andrij · « **Reply #902 on:** 10 August, 2020, 12:14:01 pm »

Quote from: road-runner on 10 August, 2020, 12:05:50 pm

I thought that in Slavic languages Lukashenko is male and Lukashenka is female.

Generally speaking, yes, but apparently Belarusian breaks that rule. (With my Ukrainian knowledge I can understand Belarusian fairly well, but have never studied it so not sure of the details).
Ukrainian has a few exceptions to the rule as well, e.g. Юра/Yura, usually Юрій/Yurij (George); and Олекса/Oleksa, usually Олексій/Oleksij (a form of Alexander).

Rod Marton · « **Reply #903 on:** 10 August, 2020, 12:36:17 pm »

Quote from: Andrij on 10 August, 2020, 12:14:01 pm

Quote from: road-runner on 10 August, 2020, 12:05:50 pm
I thought that in Slavic languages Lukashenko is male and Lukashenka is female.

Generally speaking, yes, but apparently Belarusian breaks that rule. (With my Ukrainian knowledge I can understand Belarusian fairly well, but have never studied it so not sure of the details).
Ukrainian has a few exceptions to the rule as well, e.g. Юра/Yura, usually Юрій/Yurij (George); and Олекса/Oleksa, usually Олексій/Oleksij (a form of Alexander).

In Russian Lukashenko would not have a feminine form, only surnames ending in -ov/-ev, -in and -skiy do (though this is most of them!). I don't know about Ukrainian and Belarussian: though there are Slavonic languages in which all surnames have a masculine and feminine form. Czech, for example. It is quite possible for a surname in Russian to end in -a for both the masculine and feminine forms.

hellymedic · « **Reply #904 on:** 11 August, 2020, 03:04:31 pm »

Latest Facebook advert...

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T42 · « **Reply #905 on:** 19 August, 2020, 08:04:19 am »

Lightening for lightning. Graun i.a., in their report on California "wildfires":

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Several fires had been sparked by lightening strikes during unusual thunderstorms prompted by the extreme heatwave, which has sent temperatures soaring into the triple digits.

Arseholes.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #906 on:** 19 August, 2020, 11:09:50 am »

Mr Google thinks one, or more, of the preceding two posts in written in Polish

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #907 on:** 19 August, 2020, 11:27:41 am »

See #903.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #908 on:** 19 August, 2020, 11:33:12 am »

Ah yes, that would be it

Edd · « **Reply #909 on:** 19 August, 2020, 11:57:45 am »

Hope I haven't missed this being shared elsewhere

https://twitter.com/michaelfrost6/status/1295340056346058754

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #910 on:** 24 August, 2020, 12:12:17 pm »

Stop doing WHAT? by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #911 on:** 31 August, 2020, 11:18:18 am »

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Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of primary care at the Univerity of Oxford,

Oxford as the single source of truth?

The capitalisation's a bit odd as well.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/analysis-dodgy-science-behind-face-masks-wearing-offices-soon/

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #912 on:** 01 September, 2020, 12:56:55 am »

Full WHAT? by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

T42 · « **Reply #913 on:** 01 September, 2020, 10:22:48 am »

Warantee, obviously.

L CC · « **Reply #914 on:** 17 September, 2020, 01:07:57 pm »

No. No it wasn't.

Complementary

T42 · « **Reply #915 on:** 17 September, 2020, 01:11:27 pm »

Quote from: fboab on 17 September, 2020, 01:07:57 pm

No. No it wasn't.

Complementary

Only half a knicker among 'em.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #916 on:** 17 September, 2020, 01:12:05 pm »

So there's Derek Kennedy and Steve Ball. Where are the Roberts?

quixoticgeek · « **Reply #917 on:** 17 September, 2020, 01:13:29 pm »

Quote from: Andrij on 09 August, 2020, 08:24:33 pm

Quote from: hellymedic on 09 August, 2020, 05:04:59 pm
Over on Facebook, perfumes are being discussed.
Somebody has posted 'Channel 5'...

Reminds me of someone discussing the Star Wars film 'Rouge One'...

I've been having issues with autocarrot on my phone recently.

Yesterday when talking about swearing allegiance to the queen, it changed it to queer...

Then it swapped a b for a w, giving us the wank of England.

Then changed giggling to jiggling.

It's hard to have a serious conversation when your phone seems to be actively working against you...

J

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #918 on:** 22 September, 2020, 04:21:13 pm »

A WHAT connection?!?!? by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #919 on:** 22 September, 2020, 05:47:16 pm »

Shitverts in fondleslab games continue to provide a bountiful source of poofreding FAIL:

As nommed teh Purpel Poeple Eatre? by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

L CC · « **Reply #920 on:** 29 September, 2020, 09:24:13 am »

Does no one proof read anything now??
To be honest, anything involving 'ear candles' possibly would only result in tratnquility for me anyway...

hellymedic · « **Reply #921 on:** 29 September, 2020, 01:54:03 pm »

Brining from the salt of the earth...

ElyDave · « **Reply #922 on:** 29 September, 2020, 03:13:07 pm »

Shouldn't that read "Callous Peal" for the full sensory experience?

T42 · « **Reply #923 on:** 29 September, 2020, 05:02:53 pm »

Dermaplaning? Try the Stanley N°4 hand plane.

citoyen · « **Reply #924 on:** 29 September, 2020, 05:36:44 pm »

Quote from: fboab on 29 September, 2020, 09:24:13 am

Does no one proof read anything now??

I do. It's my job. But I don't get paid very well for it and I'm incredibly overworked, so I don't spend as much time reading pages as would be ideal, and that's my excuse for the number of cock-ups that make it into print on my watch.

Mostly, though, things don't get proofread. Sub editors are a dying breed. Cookbooks are especially bad - the number of glaringly obvious errors I come across in recipes is astounding... at least I've got a modicum of cooking experience so can use my sense and make necessary adjustments. Some less skilled home cooks must end up with inedible dinners and not even realise it's not their fault.

Anyway, my contribution to the thread...

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Just how many fucking times do I have to repeat it?