RTÉ spelling

twinklerunner

Come on RTÉ, surely you can do better than this - the country's national station and you don't know the difference between it's and its .. ??photo.JPG

vcshqkf9rpzgoe

Big deal? Everyone makes mistakes

Brian017

It's not a spelling mistake, ''it's'' is spelt right. It is a grammatical mistake. But as JameMitch98 said, who cares?

Of course we should care - even the national broadcasters can't be bothered with correct English?
A nation holds it is breath?
Pretty shoddy

callaway92

Op was it you who went to the effort of taking a photo of that on your TV and uploading it?


Sad stuff if so . .

twinklerunner

Brian017 wrote: »

It's not a spelling mistake, ''it's'' is spelt right. It is a grammatical mistake. But as JameMitch98 said, who cares?

Well, I care. It's means 'it is' or 'it has', 'its' should be used in the caption.

Peter Rhea

callaway92 wrote: »

Op was it you who went to the effort of taking a photo of that on your TV and uploading it?


Sad stuff if so . .

You 'went to the effort' of replying to the thread, seemingly motivated by nothing more than a desire to ridicule the OP's perfectly laudable & worthwhile concern for literacy standards.

Which do you think was more worthy of 'the effort'?

mike65

callaway92 wrote: »

Op was it you who went to the effort of taking a photo of that on your TV and uploading it?


Sad stuff if so . .

and I just blew over 1 mb to see it!

That some herbert on RTE couldn't punctuate "A nation holds its breath" correctly is merely another small example of rapidly declining standards as a generation bought up on txt and internet LOLs moves into the workplace.

There is hardly a person left on boards who spells programme correctly after all.

twinklerunner

mike65 wrote: »

and I just blew over 1 mb to see it!

That some herbert on RTE couldn't punctuate "A nation holds its breath" correctly is merely another small example of rapidly declining standards as a generation bought up on txt and internet LOLs moves into the workplace.

There is hardly a person left on boards who spells programme correctly after all.

'brought' up 😊

Peter Rhea

mike65 wrote: »

That some herbert on RTE couldn't punctuate "A nation holds its breath" correctly is merely another small example of rapidly declining standards as a generation bought up on txt and internet LOLs moves into the workplace.

Nothing wrong with txt, in its place. Dropping elements unnecessary to convey meaning makes perfect sense.

I wish I knew where this thing of sticking an apostrophe in every word ending in 's' came from, though.

Mr. G

I've noticed sometimes on the nine o'clock news and primetime there are typos, spelling and grammatical mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes and I'm picky about these things.

grammer nazi

mike65

Peter Rhea wrote: »

Nothing wrong with txt, in its place. Dropping elements unnecessary to convey meaning makes perfect sense.

I wish I knew where this thing of sticking an apostrophe in every word ending in 's' came from, though.

In its place - on a phone! This and other message boards remind patrons not to use txt for a reason - its annoying.

As for the spread of incorrectly used apostrophes, well its pure ignorance.

Charlie-Bravo

mike65 wrote: »

In its place - on a phone! This and other message boards remind patrons not to use txt for a reason - its annoying.

As for the spread of incorrectly used apostrophes, well its pure ignorance.

Are you testing us?

copacetic

mike65 wrote: »

In its place - on a phone! This and other message boards remind patrons not to use txt for a reason - its annoying.

As for the spread of incorrectly used apostrophes, well its pure ignorance.

Agreed Mike, Im totally behind your campaign to drop all use of them to avoid any chance of incorrect use!

Peter Rhea

Theyre a bit of a relic. Theres no need for them in Peter Rheas posts anyway.

To me that reads just as well as the apostrophe-laden version.

It isnt my wont to use them so I wont use them. Also, I cant stand cant . . .

Sam Russell

There is a problem found in those who use text-speak in that they cannot put ideas across with just words but must use grunts and hand signs to convey their ideas. Particularly annoying is the use of fingers to convey quotation marks. OMG, what is happening, like, to our, like, culture, I mean.

Another 'going forward' trend is the growing use, by the chattering RTE interviewees, of the word 'substantive' when I think they mean 'substantial' when they are talking about 'issues' Perhaps they do not mean substantial, but I think they do. If they do make such mistakes, they will make a 'fullsome' apology, when a 'full' apology might be more appropriate.

There is also a large influx of 'American cultural' type words like 'fail' when 'failure' should be used (as in 'epic fail'), and phrases like 'face-palm', and the use of adjectives in place of adverbs.

Standards are falling.:mad:

Long live pedants.:)

twinklerunner

I can live with text-speak, poor grammar on boards.ie as well as, for example, the terribly poor standard of English in the comments section of the Irish Independent. My point in starting this thread was that it related to RTÉ, a publicly funded national station that should aspire to the highest standards.

If I hear another contributor on RTÉ talking about there being a 'disconnect' ... well, enough said.

Yakuza

Deleted User wrote: »

grammer nazi

Grammar

Brian017 wrote: »

...who cares?

A national broadcaster should maintain some standards when creating content that is for national consumption - when mistakes are broadcast nationwide it can reinforce (subliminally, perhaps) those mistakes in the minds of the viewers and thus propagate the error.

twinklerunner

They're at it again!

twinklerunner

Six One News this evening - if only there was an easy way to check spelling
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watty

Peter Rhea wrote: »

I wish I knew where this thing of sticking an apostrophe in every word ending in 's' came from, though.

Greengrocer's

(Greengrocer's windows The Greengrocers like to use up their free apostrophes )

mathepac

Sam Russell wrote: »

There is a problem found in those who use text-speak in that they cannot put ideas across with just words but must use grunts and hand signs to convey their ideas. Particularly annoying is the use of fingers to convey quotation marks. OMG, what is happening, like, to our, like, culture, I mean.

Another 'going forward' trend is the growing use, by the chattering RTE interviewees, of the word 'substantive' when I think they mean 'substantial' when they are talking about 'issues' Perhaps they do not mean substantial, but I think they do. If they do make such mistakes, they will make a 'fullsome' apology, when a 'full' apology might be more appropriate.

There is also a large influx of 'American cultural' type words like 'fail' when 'failure' should be used (as in 'epic fail'), and phrases like 'face-palm', and the use of adjectives in place of adverbs.

Standards are falling.:mad:

Long live pedants.:)

I agree wholeheartedly. Some might view pedantry as a bad thing; I love being complimented on mine!

It's only a matter of weeks until Turbidity & Co start the "chicken-head gangsta talk"* on the radio programmes. It could add a new dimension to the Joe Show.

*rapid, side-to-side head movements accompanied by hand-gestures, delivered nose-to-nose.