#badenglish — Public Fediverse posts
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Byline: "The high street was closed for the duration of the rescue operation".
High Street is the actual street name; it should therefore have upper case first characters. 🤦♂️
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Q: When is an axe not an axe?
#A: When it's a hatchet.
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Towing animals?
3 years of media studies and never once encountered the word 'transporting'. 🤦♂️
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"Sometimes, it’s not just what you eat, it’s where you eat it. A hot mackerel sandwich from a little smokehouse on Brighton seafront, wolfed down at the shoreline with my wife."
You ate your wife at the seaside? Blige!
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/may/10/52-writers-on-the-best-sandwich-of-their-life
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"A member of the public discovered a man’s body on a roof garden located at a block of flats."
What was 'a member of the public' [sic] doing on private property?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/urgent-enquiries-identify-man-found-10951196
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Modern icons - latest. Converted shipping containers in #Bristol.
Other adjectives are available.
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Ever heard of bacterium, the singular of bacteria?
Thought not!
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/warning-ecoli-found-south-bristol-10939576
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"The St Paul’s Advice Centre used to be located on Grosvenor Road before relocating to an alternative premises [sic].'
Premises is a plural noun.
And this illiterate rag is going to be introducing a paywall... 🤦♂️
#BadEnglish #BadJournalism #Bristol
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/vacant-bristol-building-could-transformed-10929495
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"A separate request to the Food Standards Agency revealed the government quango “did conduct work on the strength of evidence for the effectiveness of interventions against campylobacter [a type of bacteria that can cause diarrhoea] at various stages of the food chain, this included a review of chemical treatments including studies performed in the USA."
WTF is a 'government quango' besides an #oxymoron?
The author is clearly unaware of what a quango is, i.e. a Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation. 🤦♂️
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/23/uk-us-chlorinated-chicken-foi-request
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"Bristol has taken the title of the ‘Ketamine Capital of Europe’ as some users have had to have their bladders removed due to execcive [sic] use of the drug."
#BadEnglish #BadJournalism #Bristol #BristolLive
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-named-europes-biggest-consumer-10919580
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No, you're a *culinarily-challenged* home cook; and an illiterate to boot.
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"In planning documents, the applicants said external cladding would be replaced to improve thermal efficiency and fire safety, with new windows to match the ones still there when the tower was built in 1958."
Still there when the tower was built?
That implies the windows pre-date the rest of the structure. 🤦♂️
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/future-secured-bristol-tower-block-10876364
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"Kondwari’s phone was downloaded [sic] by the force and messages were recovered and traced back to him."
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/drug-dealer-held-passports-subordinates-10898824
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"Both the new e-bikes and e-scooters will have twice the amount of battery capacity than [sic] the current vehicles, with the e-scooters offering increased stability due to a larger deck and the e-bikes lighter than their turquoise predecessors."
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The continuing menace of driverless cars, #BadEnglish and #BadJournalism.
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Expat (n.): British immigrant with a highly developed sense of exceptionalism.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/real-life/british-expat-tenerife-says-changes-10885792
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Quote of the Day
“There’s a whole big, oh, you can work from home. Nobody’s going to work from a home. They’re going to be going out. They’re going to play tennis. They’re going to play golf. They’re going to do a lot of things. They’re not working.”
— President Trump, quoted by CNN, before heading out to play golf in Florida.
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Quote of the Day
“There’s a whole big, oh, you can work from home. Nobody’s going to work from a home. They’re going to be going out. They’re going to play tennis. They’re going to play golf. They’re going to do a lot of things. They’re not working.”
— President Trump, quoted by CNN, before heading out to play golf in Florida.
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Today In Metal History 🤘 August 27th, 2024🤘
ALEX LIFESON, STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, MONSTROSITY, OPETH, HAMMERFALL#AlexLifeson #StevieRayVaughan #Monstrosity #Opeth #Hammerfall #StephenStevieRayVaughan #JohnBogert #NeilMurray #GlenMatlock #CoburnPharr #BjornGelotte #Aerosmith #PearlJam #BadEnglish
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Today In Metal History 🤘 June 26th, 2024🤘 KREATOR, FREE, BAD ENGLISH, DANZIG, KING DIAMOND, SYMPHONY X
Heavy Birthdays 58th Jürgen "Ventor" Reil (KREATOR) - 1966 Heavy Releases 54th FREE’s Fire And Water - 1970 FREE’s third album, Fire And Water, spawned the massive hit “All Right Now”. 48th TROOPER’s Two For The Show - 1976 35th BAD ENGLISH's Bad... -
Latest USA author of Regency novels set in the UK keeps using the phrase 'going forward'.
Ouch.
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"Please could you update where necessary and return to myself"
Again, this misuse of reflexive terms by trying to sound clever just ends up with you NOT sounding clever.
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"Please could you update where necessary and return to myself"
Again, this misuse of reflexive terms by trying to sound clever just ends up with you NOT sounding clever.