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

[Bert]

BLAKEY wrote: 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." Sorry to depress you even more, but I suspect this may not have been a mistake but a deliberate, desperate, politically correct attempt to avoid saying 'his' or 'her' and thus upset the gender discrimination lobby. The fact that that objective often cannot be achieved without breaking the laws of grammar frequently causes even the highest quality writers in high-quality journals to commit exactly the same offence.

[Leeds-lad]

Before you criticise YEP(and yes their typos are ridiculous)you might try to to make sense of thisdogduke-Cheryl Clifferaveydavey-Cherril CliffFFS

[BLAKEY]

Bert wrote: BLAKEY wrote: 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." Sorry to depress you even more, but I suspect this may not have been a mistake but a deliberate, desperate, politically correct attempt to avoid saying 'his' or 'her' and thus upset the gender discrimination lobby. The fact that that objective often cannot be achieved without breaking the laws of grammar frequently causes even the highest quality writers in high-quality journals to commit exactly the same offence. A very good point Bert, but in this particular case it would have been absolutely no excuse as the sole shopper was clearly a lady in the photo, and therefore "HER way home" would have been correct and unassailable by any barmy pressure group. My old English teachers would be turning in their graves if they could see how standards and logic have dropped.

[String o' beads]

I'll have you know that was my transvestite Uncle Herbert and I am mortally offended.    Oh - and on the topic of bad spelling and grammar here and on other boards, it bothers me too but we aren't professional journalists going about purporting to work for a quality newspaper.    

[raveydavey]

BLAKEY wrote: 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." Did you also notice that the same piece had a photo captioned (along the lines of) "a bus on Parkway in Seacroft". There is a North Parkway and a South Parkway, but no "Parkway" in Seacroft. 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. Sjt (Serjeant) is the way that The Rifles spell it, it's a tradition that goes back years. As has already been said they are not the only British Army regiment to spell it that way, although I don't know the reason. This is therefore one of the rare occassions that the YEP has got it right! Leeds-lad wrote: Before you criticise YEP(and yes their typos are ridiculous)you might try to to make sense of thisdogduke-Cheryl Clifferaveydavey-Cherril CliffFFS My mistake - having checked my extensive back catalogue of YEP's, it is of course Sheryl Clith.

[Arry Awk]

Geordie-exile wrote: I'll have you know that was my transvestite Uncle Herbert and I am mortally offended.    Oh - and on the topic of bad spelling and grammar here and on other boards, it bothers me too but we aren't professional journalists going about purporting to work for a quality newspaper.     I'll have you know duckies,I like it both ways!signed U. Herbert .(Mortally Offended Cross Dresser)                                

[blackprince]

raveydavey wrote: 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. Could also mean a Grenade Launching Machine Gun as fitted to WIMIKs in Afghanistan. I've been reading too much Ross Kemp.

[BLAKEY]

[quotenick="raveydaveyDid you also notice that the same piece had a photo captioned (along the lines of) "a bus on Parkway in Seacroft". There is a North Parkway and a South Parkway, but no "Parkway" in Seacroft.]Oh yes, I did also notice that but had forgotten about it - after all "He/She/They" - "North/South" - who cares , - at least that seems to be the YEP attitude and they are arrogantly unashamed of it !! As other friends on here have said, we are not professional journalists. However I write quite a few pieces for transport journals and I can honestly say that I almost make myself poorly, quite unnecessarily really, in exhaustive checking to try and ensure that there is nothing wrong.