Shame on you, BBC

Monday, August 9th, 2004 at 2138

The BBC, arguably the last great bastion of properly spoken and reported English in the UK (As everyone knows the UK is appallingly bad at teaching their youth the native language, usually meaning that if a foreigner can negate their accent they can always be detected by their impeccable grammar…), has fallen.

Fallen far.

I quote from an article on painkiller addiction:

With 50 brands to choose from, has the explosion in the painkiller market made us loose sight of the fact that our pain threshold acts as a signal to stop us from injuring ourselves?

“Loose” ? Bloody loose ?

FOR THE LOVE OF THE GODS PEOPLE, GET IT RIGHT. It’s LOSE, from the verb “To Lose“.

I simply cannot believe how stupid and lazy Microsoft Word has made people. If it’s not underlined in red it must be right, right? NO it’s not. Bloody well fire up a brain cell (Let’s face it, that’s all it takes) to read what you write before you show the world what an illiterate sod you have let yourself become.

Ugh. The BBC, of all institutions… There is no hope.

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10 Comment for “Shame on you, BBC”

Jackdaw Said this on August 9th, 2004 at 2230
I can understand this. Personally I froth at the mouth over the the misuse of antivirus terms:
anti-virus *shudder*
virii *kill death slaughter*
Urban Mongral Said this on August 9th, 2004 at 2249
Stop complaining about English Den!
[url]http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=problematical[/url]
After complaining about this word all day at work I can prove that it is correct. Now hurry up and break more back boxes!
woodss Said this on August 12th, 2004 at 1702
“Comment by Urban Mongral — 9/8/2004 @ 2249 ”

Um.. isn’t it ‘Mongrel’ .. ?
LoL
Denyerec Said this on August 12th, 2004 at 1707
Maximum Ownage
lor3 Said this on August 13th, 2004 at 1001
I want you Denyer.
Urban Mongral Said this on August 15th, 2004 at 0011
Yes it is Mongrel – Unfortunatly when I had the email urbanmongrel@hotmail.com it got filled with so much spam that I slightly changed it – Suddenly no more problems. (Oh I dont use hotmail any more in case your wondering)
tom Said this on August 19th, 2004 at 1338
sounds OK to me, are you suggesting it should be “has the explosion in the painkiller market made us loosing sight of the fact that our pain threshold acts as a signal to stop us from injuring ourselves” ?
tom Said this on August 19th, 2004 at 1340
although having said that their sentence would sound better if it were “has the explosion in the painkiller market caused us to loose sight of the fact that our pain threshold acts as a signal to stop us from injuring ourselves”
Denyerec Said this on August 19th, 2004 at 1344
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=lose

*sigh*
Andy Said this on September 8th, 2004 at 0036
‘Loose” instead of “lose” is one of the most prevalent mistakes on the internet today – it used to make my blood boil whenever I saw it, but now I’m resigned to the fact that people are just becoming more illiterate – *sigh*