Media mistakes

[prpr]

Probably. It sounds like another would have/would of type of corruption.

 

[Black Hole]

I was watching (a recording of) the Stirling Prize (architecture) programme yesterday, and some woman said "it is a basic tenent...".

 

[EEPhil]

"it is a basic tenent...".

I’ll assume that in the context of the programme you think the word should be tenet. Shouldn’t that spelling be tenant?(Debatable, is the word mis-pronounced or did the speaker use the wrong word?)

Rather rude way of describing someone renting your property.

 

[Black Hole]

you think the word should be tenet

Yes. With so many more of the general public now speaking on TV through vox pops or whatever, it is not uncommon they commit gaffs revealing their lack of understanding of the English language. Mitigategate is just one example. People use words they think they've heard to sound educated, and then put their foot in it.

 

[gomezz]

If you think about it defusing a row means the underlying explosive arguments are still smouldering and only needs another spark to set it off again. Diffusing a row could be taken to mean the underlying arguments are spread more thinly and less likely to be a risk to life and limb and easier to individually resolve.

 

[MikeSh]

defusing a row means the underlying explosive arguments are still smouldering and only needs another spark to set it off again.

I'm not sure that really makes sense. Explosives aren't well known for the ability to smoulder

But as I said in my op I agree that diffuse can just about work, though I think it's less effective.

 

[gomezz]

I was thinking along the lines of a nuclear bomb and critical mass.

 

[EEPhil]

I was thinking along the lines of a nuclear bomb and critical mass.

Very Space 1999!

 

[Black Hole]

 

[EEPhil]

Fleabook, Fleecebook or even Feebook surely. But Feabook?

 

[prpr]

Faecbook may be better. (I inadvertently wrote Faectime on something recently.)

 

[RobH1]

From the BBC website this morning:

'The villagers, dozens of them, were busy creating bails of rice and carrying them on their backs to a rather run-down tractor.'

 

[Black Hole]

What?

 

[peterworks]

Didn't realise they used rice bails in cricket - saving the planet again ?

 

[RobH1]

It was an article on N.Korea.

 

[EEPhil]

Part of the intercontinental bailistic missile programme that Kim Jong-un is building?

 

[Black Hole]

It was an article on N.Korea.

So what is the "media mistake" you have in mind?

 

[RobH1]

Is bails of rice correct then?

 

[MikeSh]

Is bails of rice correct then?

I was a bit baffled at first as with the font on my tablet and nvg eyesight I read it as "BALLS".

So I thought they must be supplying the restaurant trade

 

[RobH1]

Article here