tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post116237275458862921..comments2024-03-27T14:57:37.031+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: In today's papers: The Rai-sing and other storiesJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1162567175870740992006-11-03T20:49:00.000+05:302006-11-03T20:49:00.000+05:30Jai should be able to enlighten us how these error...Jai should be able to enlighten us how these errors, palmed off as typos or printer's devil, get into the published word. He has worked for a national business daily. Frankly, those were not errors; they were plain bad English. But then does anybody seriously expect TOI to write English -- unless it is a lifted piece (see an old post on TOI's movie critic in this blog)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1162491337902334222006-11-02T23:45:00.000+05:302006-11-02T23:45:00.000+05:30Er.. that should have been "do" and not "doe" ;)Er.. that should have been "do" and not "doe" ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1162491195902894092006-11-02T23:43:00.000+05:302006-11-02T23:43:00.000+05:30Come on, people, if someone calls themselves a jou...Come on, people, if someone calls themselves a journalist and publishes in a national paper, the least we can expect is good grammar, good English and a minimum of editorial intervention. So, I'm with Jai on taking them to the cleaners since these people get paid to do a good job and they are failing. Btw, where are the editors?? How doe these things get through??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1162482872797600412006-11-02T21:24:00.000+05:302006-11-02T21:24:00.000+05:30Anonymous: hee hee, congrats, you've definitely ma...Anonymous: hee hee, congrats, you've definitely made it to the longlist for my Most Entertaining Comments of 2006. (<A HREF="http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/2005/12/year-end-list-comments-parade.html" REL="nofollow">Here's</A> the 2005 list btw, just so you know what standards I expect.)Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1162477847196149402006-11-02T20:00:00.000+05:302006-11-02T20:00:00.000+05:30What's with the attitude, surd? Since when have bl...What's with the attitude, surd? Since when have bloggers from Delhi, of all godforsaken places, become experts on language?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1162442609648150502006-11-02T10:13:00.000+05:302006-11-02T10:13:00.000+05:30Donnie: I have an "image"? Yay. What's it like?Donnie: I have an "image"? Yay. What's it like?Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1162407958387773412006-11-02T00:35:00.000+05:302006-11-02T00:35:00.000+05:30Hi I just put up a similar post yesterday :-)http:...Hi I just put up a similar post yesterday :-)<BR/>http://thedq1.blogspot.com/2006/10/toi-are-you-allright.html<BR/><BR/>~dqAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1162401973488489592006-11-01T22:56:00.000+05:302006-11-01T22:56:00.000+05:30Hilarious. Including the three previous comments :...Hilarious. Including the three previous comments :)<BR/><BR/>More seriously, don't these newspaper people have some inhouse training programs for young recruits. I don't know, but I am sure these are very young people who write this kind of thing. Also if you leave out the big cities and select schools the state of english language education is so abysmal in most of the places that it is no surprise that people can't write a single page composition without resorting to brianless cliches and sentence constructions even when they are out of college.<BR/><BR/>you are from newspaper world too, you have never met people who write these things? who are these people?Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1162397479171251442006-11-01T21:41:00.000+05:302006-11-01T21:41:00.000+05:30Aishwarya Rai is just great.Visit www.tekno-world....Aishwarya Rai is just great.<BR/>Visit <BR/>www.tekno-world.blogspot.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1162397409925735082006-11-01T21:40:00.000+05:302006-11-01T21:40:00.000+05:30Aishwarya Rai is a seasoned actress and does just...Aishwarya Rai is a seasoned actress and does justice to whatever roles she takes. She has been a darling of Media since Cannes. Good press does help, surely. What Say?Technology Journalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18411344646889817288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1162388325084354372006-11-01T19:08:00.000+05:302006-11-01T19:08:00.000+05:30You need to get rid of the nasty habit of sprinkli...You need to get rid of the nasty habit of sprinkling such a substantial fraction of your quotations with “(sic)”'s. The smug one-upmanship doesn't do your image too much good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com