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[Sparky]

Looks a little "shopped".

[Rob Randall]

 
Anybody else find that "NP photo illustration""[/size] just odd?

It's an article that cries out for a proper illustration, but they threw up one of the worst examples I've seen. Weak and lazy in concept, inept in execution.

Imagine the core concept of lonely Harper on a subway platform through the pen of a gifted illustrator like Mark Smith (to pick a random example). Think about how much more insightful and dramatic it would be than that cheap Photoshop hack job.

http://www.marksmith.../portfolio.html

[VicHockeyFan]

It's an article that cries out for a proper illustration, but they threw up one of the worst examples I've seen. Weak and lazy in concept, inept in execution.

Imagine the core concept of lonely Harper on a subway platform through the pen of a gifted illustrator like Mark Smith (to pick a random example). Think about how much more insightful and dramatic it would be than that cheap Photoshop hack job.

http://www.marksmith.../portfolio.html

 

Exactly.

[VicHockeyFan]

The name Isis was non-existent in Ontario delivery rooms before the 1990s, but reached double-digits in 2006 and 2009.

 

Quebec has averaged three new girls  a year with the name Isis since 2009. Twelve of them have a listed Canadian phone number.

 

http://news.national...ap-heap-in-2016

 

Now, by "new girls" I presume they mean new-born.  But if that's the case, are 12 of the roughly 15 girls, aged 0 to 6, already listing their phone numbers?

[VicHockeyFan]

Two years ago, Rogers paid $5.2 billion for the national rights to broadcast NHL games for a dozen years. Rogers figured that sowing up Canada’s national game for itself would provide a guaranteed audience through most of the winter and well into the spring. And by gobbling up the rights for the whole country, Rogers reckoned to hold onto that audience no matter which of the seven Canadian teams made the final cut.

 

http://news.national...layoff-schedule

[Rob Randall]

The writer mixed up two words that sound the same but have different meanings (homonyms). I think these are the trickiest type of homonyms for any writer because not only will a spellchecker accept it the incorrect word has a similar or related meaning. Sewing up means putting the finishing touches on a successful effort, especially one that shuts out your rivals. Sowing up could be interpreted as planting the seeds for an eventual victory. Even though it's wrong it kinda sounds right.

Three are other good examples I've seen but I can't think of them.

[nagel]

The writer mixed up two words that sound the same but have different meanings (homonyms). I think these are the trickiest type of homonyms for any writer because not only will a spellchecker accept it the incorrect word has a similar or related meaning. Sewing up means putting the finishing touches on a successful effort, especially one that shuts out your rivals. Sowing up could be interpreted as planting the seeds for an eventual victory. Even though it's wrong it kinda sounds right.

Three are other good examples I've seen but I can't think of them.

i got roasted recently on stationary vs stationery for the stuff you'd get at Monks.

[VicHockeyFan]

The writer mixed up two words that sound the same but have different meanings (homonyms). I think these are the trickiest type of homonyms for any writer because not only will a spellchecker accept it the incorrect word has a similar or related meaning. Sewing up means putting the finishing touches on a successful effort, especially one that shuts out your rivals. Sowing up could be interpreted as planting the seeds for an eventual victory. Even though it's wrong it kinda sounds right.

Three are other good examples I've seen but I can't think of them.

 

This one really stood out to me, but then I had to Google it up to make sure I had not been using the wrong one all my life.  Was glad that it was indeed an error by NP.

[VicHockeyFan]

One heck of an article here:

 

http://news.national...nker-moratorium

 

 

 

 

[VicHockeyFan]

Newspaper business ‘ugly, and it will get uglier,’ Postmedia president and CEO Paul Godfrey tells MPs

 

 

http://news.national...y-tells-commons

[VicHockeyFan]

Mick Jagger, 73, a father again with his eighth child, who is younger than singer’s great-granddaughter

 

 

Does that make sense?

 

http://news.national...t-granddaughter

[nagel]

We know what it means but it's very poorly written.

[VicHockeyFan]

 

 

?????

 

http://news.national...illing-she-says

 

Is this a blue dress, black dress thing?  Can anyone make out that photo?

[Rob Randall]

I think it's a resampled jpeg of a faxed photocopy of a screencapture of a photo taken with a Gameboy.

[VicHockeyFan]

[johnk]

I have two faves:
"Take the reigns...." and
"Tow the line."

Sometimes spellcheck bails out semi-literates and sometimes it misses a lack of basic vocab.

[Mike K.]

That's horrid.

 

I barely managed my flight from London to Cape Town, which was about ~12 hours southbound. Super lame.

[VicHockeyFan]

Aukward.

[johnk]

The great auk is a flightless bird of the alcid family that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus. Wikipedia


Dead as a dodo.

[Jill]

Here's a headline http://news.national...n-payed-interns:

 

Olsen twins’ company could pay up to US$140K to 185 former un-payed interns