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ckissick 06-01-2009 07:25 PM

Reuters journalists aren't too bright, either
 
Here's a fine example of the Queen's English:

ZURICH (Reuters) – A car traveling on a motorway in Switzerland lost all four wheels simultaneously, coming to an immediate halt in the middle of the highway, police said on Saturday.

The car had just stopped and the passengers had changed from winter to summer wheels themselves, a common task in Switzerland where there is plenty of snow in winter, but used the wrong nuts when mounting the new set.

"When they then drove back on to the motorway, all of the wheels disconnected," St Gallen cantonal police said in a statement. "Luckily, no one was injured and no other vehicle was damaged."

Gogar 06-01-2009 07:30 PM

"It's really amazing to me that a professional journalist, supposedly trained in English, could write a sentence so horribly mismanaged and confusing; a term which hilariously enough is a combination of two words: "con", a colloquialism for the term "convict", and "fusing", which is a word often used in conjunction with other terms regarding nuclear science, which doesn't really have anything to do with journalism", said Gogar.

Noah930 06-01-2009 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gogar (Post 4696967)
"It's really amazing to me that a professional journalist, supposedly trained in English, could write a sentence so horribly mismanaged and confusing; a term which hilariously enough is a combination of two words: "con", a colloquialism for the term "convict", and "fusing", which is a word often used in conjunction with other terms regarding nuclear science, which doesn't really have anything to do with journalism", said Gogar.

You're missing an apostrophe there, somewhere. I think.

masraum 06-02-2009 04:56 AM

Wow, that really is pretty amazing. I'd think that was fine if the journalist was an ESL person and/or the article had been translated from another language.

ckissick 06-02-2009 06:07 AM

The author of the piece has a British-sounding name.

billwagnon 06-02-2009 06:44 AM

Is it Nigel? Nigel is a very British-sounding name.

Also anything with "crumpet" is British-sounding.

masraum 06-02-2009 07:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ckissick (Post 4697573)
The author of the piece has a British-sounding name.

John Smith?


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