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DEAN
[31] Pollsters
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#92844 2010-07-15 12:07 GMT+12 hours |
 Seriously, if you're not even going to bother to act like a real newspaper and proofread your polytech dropouts' quasi-literate drivel, why should I bother to hit your page? I might as well go on twitter - same news, same standard of English, more timely.
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Andrew_TA
[32] thehad_TA
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#92847 2010-07-15 16:35 GMT+12 hours |
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This is pretty much the standard for tvnz/stuff/tv3 etc. On par with the people who comment on their articles.
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Lurch
[31] Pollsters
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#92848 2010-07-15 16:49 GMT+12 hours |
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I personally only read the Herald and watch Fox so don't have this problem. Good quality journalists who know how to use an apostrophe and don't fall for the Commie lies that other weaker outlets do.
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DEAN
[31] Pollsters
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#92849 2010-07-15 17:31 GMT+12 hours |
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no apostrophe ever called me a nigger
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danduran
[39] Team Luna Spark
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#92850 2010-07-15 18:34 GMT+12 hours |
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If you're going to act all high and mighty, at least bother to highlight all the mistakes. There are at least two more in that sentence. It all depends what time of the day you hit certain sites, and who's on. Every site cuts corners on staff at different times, and it shows. Try reading nzherald.co.nz on a Sunday afternoon - unless something completely outrageous happens, there's literally no new content, at all.
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DEAN
[31] Pollsters
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#92851 2010-07-15 19:52 GMT+12 hours |
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There are indeed a further two mistakes, of which one is fixed in the "corrected" version.
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taqu
[1] Users
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#92852 2010-07-15 19:59 GMT+12 hours |
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I can't see the other two mistakes....
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mojohealy
[1] Users
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#92854 2010-07-15 21:44 GMT+12 hours |
 This is not the same issue, but it's no less egregious, in my opinion.
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mojohealy
[1] Users
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#92855 2010-07-15 21:47 GMT+12 hours |
Quote Hyphens, brah.
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danduran
[39] Team Luna Spark
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#92856 2010-07-16 04:47 GMT+12 hours |
Quote And a comma really was needed too. To be fair, the time pressures we're under can lead to this kind of thing - it's usually the combination of newbie or part-timer, breaking news, lack of an experienced person on hand to check it before it goes live - but it shouldn't really happen on a story about a stupid band. When you've been doing this job over two years, you get laser eyes for this kind of shit.
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Lurch
[31] Pollsters
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#92857 2010-07-16 08:59 GMT+12 hours |
Interestingly enough this is what I'm reading of late: Its actually quite funny. And groan worthy. (There are people who use commas instead of apostrophes, and even then use them in the wrong place? Argh.)
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danduran
[39] Team Luna Spark
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#92858 2010-07-16 09:31 GMT+12 hours |
Quote Please tell me you left the apostrophe out of "it's" deliberately...
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Lurch
[31] Pollsters
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#92859 2010-07-16 10:21 GMT+12 hours |
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Oops. Knew I would do something like that if I started to be a Punctuation-Nazi. I am going to blame the keyboard on this one. I almost posted "thisi s wat Im", or something to that effect. Maybe my typing is off. One Finger Bandit and all that. I can't spell for shit and my general Grammar is unlikely to be much good eitherer. I dislike The Queen's English, and English as a language in general. Why I have these little issues with the miss/non use of stupid little squiggles and stuff I don't know. Mar fhocal scoir, is féidir leat a fháil ar fad ar fad líonta. Tá mé ag dul a fhoghlaim Gaeilge a labhairt. Mona cultúr agus domhandú a damanta.
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danduran
[39] Team Luna Spark
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#92862 2010-07-16 17:53 GMT+12 hours |
Well yeah. If anyone wants to be a punctuation and grammar Nazi, all power to them, just better to do it on a site that doesn't have news editors as members 
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watermeron
[31] Pollsters
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#92863 2010-07-16 22:48 GMT+12 hours |
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there grammas heaps better then yours your gay ey
If you earned/won 5K and then when you went to collect it they said sorry new owners, not our problem! then the prize organiser posted pictures of Dawson crying on the interwebs to spite you... would you be ok with that? |
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watermeron
[31] Pollsters
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#92864 2010-07-16 22:49 GMT+12 hours |
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lolcano
If you earned/won 5K and then when you went to collect it they said sorry new owners, not our problem! then the prize organiser posted pictures of Dawson crying on the interwebs to spite you... would you be ok with that? |
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danduran
[39] Team Luna Spark
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#92866 2010-07-17 08:55 GMT+12 hours |
Quote Like this. Roflcopter's getting a bit old. Lolcano.
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nick
[30] Posters
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#92867 2010-07-17 09:41 GMT+12 hours |
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DEAN
[31] Pollsters
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#93010 2010-08-21 14:53 GMT+12 hours |
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/4045606/Ok-to-advertise-No-God So now they cover a controversy about a religion being mocked by mocking a religion. Atheism is "odd" apparently. Which news site is the tory one again?
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danduran
[39] Team Luna Spark
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#93012 2010-08-22 12:06 GMT+12 hours |
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Once again I have to step in to explain... The story is marked as coming from the NZPA wire, which means pretty much every news site in NZ probably carried it - not just the 'Tory' ones. Secondly, one religious group getting angry because another mocked them via a billboard is pretty funny, and does belong in the odd news section. Pretty much all religious spats that don't involve people getting killed do.
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watermeron
[31] Pollsters
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#93023 2010-08-23 07:20 GMT+12 hours |
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jihad in your leotard
If you earned/won 5K and then when you went to collect it they said sorry new owners, not our problem! then the prize organiser posted pictures of Dawson crying on the interwebs to spite you... would you be ok with that? |
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danduran
[39] Team Luna Spark
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#93034 2010-08-25 09:08 GMT+12 hours |
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http://twitpic.com/photos/StuffUps For all your Stuff stuff-up needs...
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