Media mistakes

[EEPhil]

BBC Breakfast: "The Northern Lights over one of the British Antarctic Survey's research stations"

I thought that's what I heard. Idiots!

 

[EEPhil]

eg "three times cheaper than".

Not forgetting "three shades whiter". Does the normal punter know the definition of a shade? Is a table of shades (clothes, teeth etc ) readily available?
What does "three times cheaper" really mean? A third of the price?

 

[Black Hole]

What does "three times cheaper" really mean? A third of the price?

That's what they intend, I'm sure, but what's wrong with saying so? Less dramatic, that's what (and perhaps so ingrained they don't understand the difference).

 

[gomezz]

Just heard a football commentator saying that the two teams had played each other six times before. Team A had never won and Team B had only lost once.

I am open to someone explaining to me how that can be.

 

[EEPhil]

1. An idiot commentator talking rubbish - nothing new there!*
2. Counting a draw as a lost game. I refer you to point 1.

*Private Eye has many such items in the "Commentatorballs" section. (Originally Colemanballs after David Coleman and his numerous mistakes)