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Post by zou on Oct 11, 2024 10:08:12 GMT
What are some things which are commonly accepted but are just plain wrong? For example, the "red red robin" is not. It doesn't have any red, it's orange. That kind of thing.
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Post by spinno on Oct 11, 2024 10:18:41 GMT
the white cliffs of Dover...a very mucky grey
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Post by spinno on Oct 11, 2024 10:19:27 GMT
Lincoln Green (Robin Hood) is actually more of an Autumnal Orange
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Post by spinno on Oct 11, 2024 10:20:24 GMT
Manchester United is the name of a football(soccer) team
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Post by peterob on Oct 11, 2024 10:34:05 GMT
What are some things which are commonly accepted but are just plain wrong? For example, the "red red robin" is not. It doesn't have any red, it's orange. That kind of thing. The American Robin is rather more colourful than the European Robin and I'd guess the "red, red robin" song line is from the USA. More generally a depressing number of articles I read in the press, particularly where a journalist tries to explain something scientific get it just plain wrong. The Times had a humdinger the other day - I forget what it was and I'm not going to read all the back numbers to find it. In its pre-hurricane excitement the BBC news repeatedly (across several days) put up a chart claiming it to be the surface temperature of waters west of Florida despite it having an axis labelled kJ/m2 - which would in itself take a lot of explaining. There were no numerical value on the scale, why they kept the units on the slide I don't know. That reminds me. The BBC are clearly using AI voice to text translation for the subtitles (being hard of hearing I always have subtitles on) and it doesn't work that well. On the news hurricane became Harry Kane several times depending on the accent of the presenter. On Strictly the other week the AI subtitles had a complete breakdown trying to deal with supercalifragalisticexpialidocious (my spelling attempt - can't be bothered to look it up). |
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Post by dorsetmike on Oct 11, 2024 10:40:21 GMT
"supercalifragalisticexpialidocious (my spelling attempt - can't be bothered to look it up). "
I prefer the alternative spelling Superphallicflagellisticsexyandprecocious!
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Post by zou on Oct 11, 2024 10:44:29 GMT
'X' - the URL is still Twitter.
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Post by MJB on Oct 11, 2024 11:08:11 GMT
"serves 4-6", "Peel here", and "resealable pack".
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 11, 2024 11:10:09 GMT
It's a win for Britain.
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Post by zou on Oct 11, 2024 11:13:46 GMT
I said things which are commonly accepted. |
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Post by El Sid on Oct 11, 2024 11:43:39 GMT
the white cliffs of Dover...a very mucky grey Only until a bit falls off... |
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Post by willien on Oct 11, 2024 11:50:40 GMT
What are some things which are commonly accepted but are just plain wrong? For example, the "red red robin" is not. It doesn't have any red, it's orange. That kind of thing. The colour orange is named after the fruit which did not arrive in the UK till a long time after the expression "robin red breast" was in common use red being the nearest named colour of the times to the colour of the robin's breast.
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Post by willien on Oct 11, 2024 11:55:00 GMT
"supercalifragalisticexpialidocious (my spelling attempt - can't be bothered to look it up). " I prefer the alternative spelling Superphallicflagellisticsexyandprecocious! After the currently expiring Cally Thistle thoroughly stuffed Celtic early this century the Sun (I think) came up with the headline:
Supercallygoalsfantasticcelticareatrocious
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Post by davem399 on Oct 11, 2024 12:27:21 GMT
"supercalifragalisticexpialidocious (my spelling attempt - can't be bothered to look it up). " I prefer the alternative spelling Superphallicflagellisticsexyandprecocious! The one I heard was "supercallousflagellationexpertcunnilingus" |
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Post by Kath on Oct 11, 2024 13:39:05 GMT
Summer
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