We have been Tealed..!

[pippin88]

Every time I hear a "journalist" say X Olympic swimming pools or "centered around" I want to stab them in the neck. English is the basis of their "profession" (or perhaps it's hairspray). If my maths or physics had been as bad as an engineer I'd be in gaol.

Agreed. English quality in a lot of journalism is terrible. Frequent failure to use sentences properly. Often sentences lasting a whole paragraph with multiple subjects.

To be picky: "if my maths or physics had been as bad as an engineer I'd be in gaol" means that engineers have bad math and/or physics and you are using them as the example of bad quality.

"As an engineer, if my maths or physics were as bad as a journalists English, I'd be in gaol"

[damian]

Fair point. Thank you for the correction.

[ian]

Every time I hear a "journalist" say X Olympic swimming pools or "centered around" I want to stab them in the neck. English is the basis of their "profession" (or perhaps it's hairspray). If my maths or physics had been as bad as an engineer I'd be in gaol.

Agreed. English quality in a lot of journalism is terrible. Frequent failure to use sentences properly. Often sentences lasting a whole paragraph with multiple subjects.

To be picky: "if my maths or physics had been as bad as an engineer I'd be in gaol" means that engineers have bad math and/or physics and you are using them as the example of bad quality.

"As an engineer, if my maths or physics were as bad as a journalist's English, I'd be in gaol"

If you don't mind the correction:

if your grasp of maths and physics had been as bad as a journalist's grasp / usage of English, you would not have got past 1st year uni, let alone gotten as far through uni to qualify as an engineer.

[damian]

Which begs the question how do they get hired ?


I always thought Ray Martin was a life support system for a hairdo. Maybe that is it. Being pretty is more important than having a clue...