Monday, 22 April 2013

I didn't see it but apparently a tweeter from the BBC accidentally typed and sent out the phrase 'Margaret Thatcher dies following a strike', whilst an Irish TV channel's website was advertising a broadband provider whose tagline read 'the wait is over'. Nobody's fault but so easy to see how that happened.

There was also an unfortunately autocorrection at the Los Angeles Times because the computer would not allow the sentence to begin with 'but' so corrected to 'Butt cracks eventually appeared in Lamb's persona.'

Best of all though, the massive advertising campaing for a company calling itself, 'Reliability: always upholding the highest standards for every detal'. 

Apparently the best place to see this kind of thing is on TV subtitles, resulting in "turkeys are lining up against the border of Syria' (BBC) and apparently ITV asked a headteacher if 500 executions (instead of exclusions) meant her school is out of control.  I'll be watching (and reading) with added interest in future.

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