apetley Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Here's an example from todays website. 'A fire fighter tries to distinguish a fire that engulfed an LPG-propelled Toyota on Friday. The driver was driving on a road when he noticed a smoke from engine.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbk Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Here's an idea, write the Nation a letter complaining about their English. Thai Visa has no influence on the Nation's content, editors or policy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apetley Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 Here's an idea, write the Nation a letter complaining about their English. Thai Visa has no influence on the Nation's content, editors or policy. Tried that a couple of times, no reply as yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumpuiman Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Funny, I thought I'd take a quick look at some articles....and the first one I picked.... For Nattakorn and third runner-up Kaewsan Atibhodi, it was good investment. The latter had impressed the most in TV discussions whereas Nattakorn had that sophisticated charm that could have come in handy in politically peaceful time. It was unfortunate, like Nattakorn rightly stated, that national politics often decided who won the Bangkok race. "a good investment" "a politically peaceful time" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumpuiman Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 (edited) And, after another quick glance.... We regret inconvenience caused Thaksin and Asahi Shimbun by publication of the earlier translation. The following is the script as provided by Asahi Shimbun. To the OP: You should make a game out of this thread. Whoever finds the most errors on any particular day would be considered the winner. Edited January 31, 2009 by pumpuiman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumpuiman Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 This one is a real winner!! Free visas for all touristsBy Suchat Sritama The Nation The Cabinet on Tuesday waived travel visa for all nationals for over the next three months as one of four short-term recovery measures to restore tourism industry. The move is expected to draw more Chinese travellers, one of the main target group, to the country. The second strategy is to reduce entrance fee to all national parks in the Kingdom. The agreement is aimed to boost domestic tourism. The third is to allow private sector to claim back-meeting and conference tax at double rate from original. Last measure is cutting the landing and parking fee for aircrafts at major airports in the country. Speaking after chairing Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva expressed hope that the tourism industry could be restore through theses measures. He earlier said number of tourist is returning closed to normal rate prior to the start of economic crisis. However, it is speculated that only four tourism measures, from total 13 measures submitted to the Cabinet were approved. Proposed measures that was rejected are includes cutting hotel room rate and airfare proposed to Thai Airways International, reducing value added tax on hotel room rates for one year, an exemption annual fee of Bt80 per room and urgent plan to promote the major destinations of Phuket, Krabi and Phang Nga for local tourism. Did I miss some? WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbk Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Uh oh Pumpuiman, if you are going to be a spelling nazi you'd better make sure you know what you are talking about: In British spelling, verbs ending in a vowel plus l double the l when adding endings that begin with a vowel (e.g. travel, travelled, traveller). In American English the l is not doubled (travel, traveled, traveler).. Source: The Oxford English dictionary online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaiWai Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Has anyone else noticed The Nation's love of ("effegtion for" ) the word "effigy"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tominchaam Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 (edited) Being a "non-English" person I find it difficult to understand all these complains about spelling. As long as I understand what is said or written I am satisfied even if I enjoy perfect English. To me the meaning of what is written is far more important than the spelling. This does not mean I don’t like perfect English, but is not a must for posts here or articles in the Nation by Thai journalists. Edited January 31, 2009 by tominchaam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OxfordWill Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 yes, yes, youd all be happier not to have any english newspapers at all. please for the love of life get a hobby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 YAWN.... must be some seriously bored people today. As sbk said, write to their editors & let them know cause <deleted> this has to do with thaivisa I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumpuiman Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Uh oh Pumpuiman, if you are going to be a spelling nazi you'd better make sure you know what you are talking about:In British spelling, verbs ending in a vowel plus l double the l when adding endings that begin with a vowel (e.g. travel, travelled, traveller). In American English the l is not doubled (travel, traveled, traveler).. Source: The Oxford English dictionary online I think "Nazi" should be capitalized And for such a YAWN boring topic, it sure seems to attract moderators Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 it's part of my role here to read all threads, sadly even the pointless ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaiWai Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 (edited) it's part of my role here to read all threads, sadly even the pointless ones I can't say I find it pointless (certainly no more so than several other threads I might mention ). It's undoubtedly related to the readers of ThaiVisa Forum as it's one of the larger national English language newspapers in Thailand, and is frequently cited here. Some of us find the glaring errors amusing and, even, amazing. Perhaps we have small minds . Edited January 31, 2009 by WaiWai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adjan jb Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 The Nation We know througout Thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaiWai Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 (edited) The NationWe know througout Thailand "Nobody knows, . . . we know". Edited January 31, 2009 by WaiWai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbk Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Uh oh Pumpuiman, if you are going to be a spelling nazi you'd better make sure you know what you are talking about:In British spelling, verbs ending in a vowel plus l double the l when adding endings that begin with a vowel (e.g. travel, travelled, traveller). In American English the l is not doubled (travel, traveled, traveler).. Source: The Oxford English dictionary online I think "Nazi" should be capitalized And for such a YAWN boring topic, it sure seems to attract moderators But then, I don't care, so you can capitalise it if you want (just so you know, capitalize can be spelled both ways ) I just find the irony of your original post quite delicious Before pointing out errors its often best to make sure that they are, in fact, errors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaiWai Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 It looks like "The Nation" itself is not without a sense of humour. Go to http://www.nationmultimedia.com/ . Scroll down to the title "Dying in Chiang Mai". Click . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinthailand Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Funny, I thought I'd take a quick look at some articles....and the first one I picked....For Nattakorn and third runner-up Kaewsan Atibhodi, it was good investment. The latter had impressed the most in TV discussions whereas Nattakorn had that sophisticated charm that could have come in handy in politically peaceful time. It was unfortunate, like Nattakorn rightly stated, that national politics often decided who won the Bangkok race. "a good investment" "a politically peaceful time" and "as N rightly stated" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrat Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 When you consider that the BBC a bastion of the English Language is constantly mis spelling stuff on it's news banners, and many letters to them always receive, "we are doing our best" don't be too hard on the Nation. CNN and AlJazeerah seem flawless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchguest Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 If you don't like "The nation" you can also not read the nation: http://www.notthenation.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinthailand Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 When you consider that the BBC a bastion of the English Language is constantly mis spelling stuff on it's news banners, and many letters to them always receive, "we are doing our best" don't be too hard on the Nation.CNN and AlJazeerah seem flawless. i think you mean its news it's means it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumball Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 It would appear it is hard to get good staff many places these days of intermingling societies , ah well remember what the lady said on an interview about relationships " A good man is hard to find these days , but a hard man is sure good to find " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumpuiman Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Uh oh Pumpuiman, if you are going to be a spelling nazi you'd better make sure you know what you are talking about:In British spelling, verbs ending in a vowel plus l double the l when adding endings that begin with a vowel (e.g. travel, travelled, traveller). In American English the l is not doubled (travel, traveled, traveler).. Source: The Oxford English dictionary online I think "Nazi" should be capitalized And for such a YAWN boring topic, it sure seems to attract moderators But then, I don't care, so you can capitalise it if you want (just so you know, capitalize can be spelled both ways ) I just find the irony of your original post quite delicious Before pointing out errors its often best to make sure that they are, in fact, errors I make errors constantly. I'm grammatically retarded at best....and I knock the <deleted> socks off The Nation. Now thats delicious. I also read it every single day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruceboy Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 These are great. Keep them coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantilley Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 (edited) <deleted> this has to do with thaivisa I don't know. It doesn't have anything to do with ThaiVisa directly, but it is relevant to Thailand and before the recent "connection" was made between The Nation and ThaiVisa a thread like this would have been allowed to run without comment. Will be interesting to see if this manages to survive without being closed, could be a good indication of things to come... Edited January 31, 2009 by dantilley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crushdepth Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Thai Visa has no influence on the Nation's content, editors or policy. But you did just announce some joint venture deal with them, so lets not pretend we don't have any vested interests, ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumpuiman Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I just performed a search for more articles written by Suchat Sritama (the author of the slightly flawed piece posted above) thinking I may find some more jewels. I found many articles....all written very well, not an error in the bunch. There must be an interesting story behind the beauty with all the mistakes. Hangover? Written by someone else? Phoned in? Any theories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaiWai Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 (edited) Phone suggests words that are wildly off ... Within context, you can often guess, just as you often can by looking at the missed-keyboard-key. And other times, you know that person simply has no idea . Edited January 31, 2009 by WaiWai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotcom Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Maybe the Nation would like to hire some of us to proof read. Or they can stick to the kindergarden levels of today. The Post is just as bad, regardless of how many poms on staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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