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Good to see the BBC is keep up appearances and standards - today - https://www.bbc.com/news/wales

Headline on the Wales page 'Debt-hit sheep rustler steels 73 ewes from neighbour'

Yea gods, pathetic, they clearly do not proof read anything or give a toss about the spelling - kinda makes you wonder on the veracity of the content. Clearly no longer a leader in any way at all.
 
I agree that they are often remiss in the quality of language, grammar and style of presentation. I'm afraid standards are generally lower also in the media generally - it's no longer just the Grauniad that gets it wrong.
Of course that is partly the result of not teaching grammar in schools. When I trained as an English teacher in the mid-1970's, it was highly frowned upon to use red ink on children's written work; didn't stop me, but my tutor had a go at me.
 
"Yea gods"?
 
At one time BBC English was the accent required to unlock doors, then they decided to go all regional and represent ordinary people. I would see a failure to write well as an extension of that normalisation process, making content accessible to the majority.

Joking aside, sometimes I find the words on the page don't always match what I think I've written, and I wonder if spill chuckers and grammar correction has been malevolently working while I type. Re-reading is essential.
 
ancient_mariner said:
At one time BBC English was the accent required to unlock doors, then they decided to go all regional and represent ordinary people. I would see a failure to write well as an extension of that normalisation process, making content accessible to the majority.

Joking aside, sometimes I find the words on the page don't always match what I think I've written, and I wonder if spill chuckers and grammar correction has been malevolently working while I type. Re-reading is essential.
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:agree: Re' the "Re-reading"..."Always check your work before handing it in." was drummed into me at school.
 
I have posted this before so apologies if it is a repeat for you

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I yam shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
 
lindsay said:
I agree that they are often remiss in the quality of language, grammar and style of presentation. I'm afraid standards are generally lower also in the media generally - it's no longer just the Grauniad that gets it wrong.
Of course that is partly the result of not teaching grammar in schools. When I trained as an English teacher in the mid-1970's, it was highly frowned upon to use red ink on children's written work; didn't stop me, but my tutor had a go at me.
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It's also cost-cutting, with sub-editors now considered by many to be an expensive and unnecessary luxury:(
 
Chatting to a mate earlier, he told me that spelling and grammar are ignored in some English exams - he's a marker and hates having to decipher some answers!
 
Garry Edwards said:
It's also cost-cutting, with sub-editors now considered by many to be an expensive and unnecessary luxury:(
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Local papers seldom had subs, but they tended to have editors with doctorates in Applied Sarcasm.

It worked surprisingly well... ;)
 
The penis, mightier than the sword?
 
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