The YEP... ... ... this takes the cup for spelling mistake.

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Fri 01 Jan, 2010 4:43 pm

Even if no-one is proof reading its says a lot about the professionalism of writer/reprorter - don't they even read their own material before they press the print button?Maybe it simply comes down to having had 12 years of Mr Blair's "edjucation, edjucation, edjucation". For years teachers have been chortling over howlers from essays & exam papers, such as: "In 1944 the RAC lunched the first thousand bummer raid on Droylesden". Multiple choice questions like Complete the sentence with the word that fits best"The budget gave a 2.5% rise to _____________"1. Prisoners 2.Poisoners 3 Pensioners Answer 1,2 , or3.Now the howlers have graduated from the classroom into the real world, generating some surreal stories to amuse us. Do people still have to pay for the YEP or is it a free rag nowadays?

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Fri 01 Jan, 2010 5:43 pm

blackprince wrote: Even if no-one is proof reading its says a lot about the professionalism of writer/reprorter - don't they even read their own material before they press the print button?Maybe it simply comes down to having had 12 years of Mr Blair's "edjucation, edjucation, edjucation". For years teachers have been chortling over howlers from essays & exam papers, such as: "In 1944 the RAC lunched the first thousand bummer raid on Droylesden". Multiple choice questions like Complete the sentence with the word that fits best"The budget gave a 2.5% rise to _____________"1. Prisoners 2.Poisoners 3 Pensioners Answer 1,2 , or3.Now the howlers have graduated from the classroom into the real world, generating some surreal stories to amuse us. Do people still have to pay for the YEP or is it a free rag nowadays? It's 42p a copy mate! It's a sad state of affairs the way standards have slipped, especially since the current owners took over.John Thorpe must be beside himself.

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Fri 01 Jan, 2010 11:12 pm

maybe some kind soul should bring this thread to the attention of either Radio Leeds or Radio Aire<G>. I am sure they could have great fun with it....

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Sat 02 Jan, 2010 12:16 am

Better half has binned tonights paper,only managed to read a bitwaiting to pick her up from work.Is it me?Article tonight on number of people in Leeds waiting for organ transplants - headed :-DYING FOR A TRANSPLANTSerious topic but tasteless 'journalism'

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 02 Jan, 2010 6:10 pm

Has anyone else noted that the letters page has been reduced to part of a single page lately, rather than the bulk of two pages as it used to be?Has something untoward happened to the prolific letter writers like Cherril Cliff and LE Slack, or is there some other reason? The letters page is probably the best bit of the paper!

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Fri 08 Jan, 2010 9:40 pm

Front page of tonights episode has a story of one of our brave soldiers taking on the Taliban and rescuing two of his comrades with a "grenade propelled machine gun".Now that certainly sounds impressive - I've never heard of a machine gun that is propelled by a grenade. I'm also not sure exactly what happens after the grenade has propelled the machine gun. Perhaps it's some new secret weapon only issued on Wellington Street?I suspect that our friendly hack means a GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun), or possibly an RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) but couldn't be bothered to check what they'd written actually made any sense.

Bert · Post by **Bert** » Fri 08 Jan, 2010 10:17 pm

Now if it'd been a Taleban martyr looking forward to sharing his bed with 72 virgins I could just about believe he might propel his machine gun with a grenade, along with the rest of him.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Fri 08 Jan, 2010 11:39 pm

Another grammatical masterpiece in last night's edition. There is a large picture of Seacroft Green covered in snow with just one person in view - the caption :- :-" A LONE shopper making THEIR way home."Its a good job there was only one pedestrian or the caption would no doubt have said :-"SEvERAL shoppers making HIS way home."

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Sat 09 Jan, 2010 2:57 am

I don't like to cricisise reports which involve those serving in Iraq/afghnistan and elsewhere but the YEP and others must just get the basics right.I always thought the accepted abreviation for sergeant was'Sgt'where did 'Sjt 'come from?I may make the occasional typo - even after reading and re reading my posts but this is not how I make my living,for goodness sake get it right.

Si · Post by Si » Sat 09 Jan, 2010 10:34 am

dogduke wrote: I don't like to cricisise reports which involve those serving in Iraq/afghnistan and elsewhere but the YEP and others must just get the basics right.I always thought the accepted abreviation for sergeant was'Sgt'where did 'Sjt 'come from?I may make the occasional typo - even after reading and re reading my posts but this is not how I make my living,for goodness sake get it right. To be fair (and pedantic!) some regiments (Guards?) do spell it with a "J" for some reason. (There are other odd army spellings, such as The Glosters and Welch Fusiliers.) But I doubt that this is the case here, what with grenade propelled machine guns and all!