Agh

[jennsteele]

From Boston.com:
"Someone once said, 'A little rain never hurt anyone.' If I find that person, I'd like to ring his neck," said race director Dave McGillivray during a press conference at the Fairmont Copley Plaza.

I can't believe that journalist didn't know the difference between wring and ring...

Comments

[dr_tectonic]

You don't read the newspaper much, do you?

I'm no longer surprised by any degree of incompetence at writing proper English exhibited by a newspaper journalist. I just wonder what the hell happened to copy editors. Did they all go extinct from some kind of virus?

[bats22]

Ugh... well, at least journalists don't write for a living or anything. Oh wait... :P

Also, I know that science literacy is too much to expect from journalists, but a recent New York Times article annoyed me enough that I sent email to their corrections department. Never heard back, though.

I'm not sure if this is the proper email address to send corrections to, but I have two items that should be addressed in today's article "Reports From Four Fronts in the War on Warming"

The plant is driven by power from 48 turbines in the Emu Downs Wind Farm, about 100 miles to the north, that can produce 80 megawatts of electricity a day, more than three times the needs of the plant.

A watt (or megawatt) is a rate of power generation or consumption; therefore, "a day" is not correct. It is equivalent to saying "the car travelled 80 miles per hour per day."

Also, a typo in the heading:

At Risk From Floods, and Defensless When the Rivers Rise

I figured I had to rant to somebody else about that.

[melted_snowball]

Huh. I had thought you'd ranted here, but it turns out you hadn't.

But I did...

[arcticturtle]

A watt (or megawatt) is a rate of power generation or consumption; therefore, "a day" is not correct. It is equivalent to saying "the car travelled 80 miles per hour per day."

Preach it! O, how I despise misunderstanding of simple units.

As for the original error: hey, if it passes spell Czech, it must be right. And they wonder why blog-type publishing is eclipsing classical, allegedly edited publishing. Well, they abandoned real editing first!