This error was sent to me by my friend Carol - thanks :) I think it should be just big enough for you to read - I hope. Well it's the best you're going to get :p
The bottom of the picture is the funniest bit; "done but with errors on the page!" Lol - don't we know it? Does that come as standard at the bottom of all Daily Mail articles?
Ok, the article in general isn't very good, a few poor bits. Although technically it makes sense, the following is badly written: 'The general point is very clear in this country: that is that it takes a pretty serious crime to get yourself sent to prison' 'That is that it???' doesn't sound so great, though as Carol pointed out to me, it probably does sound better when spoken.
The last and most obvious mistake I noticed was 'And as a result you have broken the contract with society to such a serious extent that you have lost all of those rights: your that you have lost all of those rights: your liberty and your right to vote' Can I put that up for the award of worst sentence ever? Bad use of colons is the smallest mistake (probably should be a semi colon or comma, but then again had the sentence been written properly, who knows what the sentence structure would be) and then the rest of it is awful - they look like they have just copied/cut and paste the sentence in and ended up repeating themselves.
Thanks again to Carol - keep sending them in everyone!
OK well I think they were right with 'uncharted'; dictionary.com highlights the difference in that, uncharted is something that has not been charted (makes sense lol) and unchartered is something that is without charter, which does not apply in this context.
ReplyDeleteAnd having read and written the word charted and chartered a dozen times now it's lost all meaning. Annoying!