Comments on: You’ve seen the typo, now buy the t-shirt

By: observer

observer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:45:36 +0000

No, that would suggest more that the deaths were associated with newspapers … not that the newspapers themselves were dying.

By: Kirk Broadhurst

Kirk Broadhurst — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:42:26 +0000

maybe “Reports of newspaper deaths are exaggerated” would work within the space constraints.

People in glass houses should only throw stones at News Ltd.

By: David Sanderson

David Sanderson — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:53:44 +0000

Linley, you’re being a little dopey. Not enough room has never been an excuse for spelling/typo errors.

By: Linley Hindmarsh

Linley Hindmarsh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:10:27 +0000

But if they’d put in the first s they couldn’t have fitted in the heading. Come on, give them a break.

By: observer

observer — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:33:41 +0000

12.25, 7/7/9 Crikey’s front page …

Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev have reached a preliminary agreement on cutting both *country’s* nuclear weapons stockpiles …

The technology to go further exists, but can all the stakeholders *unite for to break* web typography free from its Georgia/Verdana prison?

The world of Wall Street can often seem impenetrable to outsiders, with its lexicon of insider terms like swing trades, bips and naked calls. SmartMoney explains *four of the most four* self-important nerdy financial terms.

For all those who suggest that nuclear power is the only solution to climate change, writes Tim Hollo there’s a little spanner in the works.

By: Linley Hindmarsh

Linley Hindmarsh — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:53:15 +0000

Firstdog, enlighten me - looks like a simple reference to Mark Twain’s joke to me.

[Firstdog says - Read each word slowly]

By: Firstdog

Firstdog — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:43:08 +0000

Linley, Bogdanovist, read it again.

Observer, you are welcome to make your own t-shirt.

By: observer

observer — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:10:26 +0000

At 9.56 pm these errors are on your front page:

SA’s opposition leader *has Martin Hamilton-Smith announced* his resignation.

It’s thou shalt not kill for the new *millenium*: a new *advertisement campaign* is urging Memphis residents not to kill one another

It’s been 35 years since Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote “Freebird”, the anthem *that has went on* to become the lamest heckle in the history of rock.

But the Swedish company — having invested some $US4 billion *into* the country since 2000 …

A Finnish couple *have* ended Estonia’s 11-year winning streak in the Wife-Carrying World Championships …

Your website is riddled with basic sub-editing errors every day.

People in glass houses …?

By: Bogdanovist

Bogdanovist — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:47:55 +0000

I’m also confused as the sentence appears correct to me? Checking google…. here we go http://www.meredith.edu/grammar/plural.htm#Plural%20possessive

Oops?

By: Linley Hindmarsh

Linley Hindmarsh — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:04:14 +0000

The heading is correctly written: the apostrophe goes after the final s in a plural noun.

By: santacruzoperation

santacruzoperation — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:46:13 +0000

Hartigan is right. Newspapers aren’t dying. Casual snappers at HUN & Fairfax have just been replaced by “Send us your photo”. Once the resolution of phone cams reached 8MP, then the staff snappers will go too. Hey, AAP even issues it’s journos with cams these days! Hey Hartigan, I can string too words together and be really natsy. Can I do Bolt’s Blog?? Please, please!!!

By: Christine Johnson

Christine Johnson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:39:58 +0000

He’s mired by his own product. A bit like the king without clothes. Hartigan’s left without an argument on his fundamentals….if he has any?

By: Ian Bryant

Ian Bryant — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:17:55 +0000

I prefer old paper

By: David Sanderson

David Sanderson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:27:47 +0000

Death by a million paper cuts.