I nearly posted a link to this story on the BBC website about cows having regional accents because I thought it was mildly interesting. But the internet linguistics police quickly debunked it.
The BBC story starts by saying “Cows have regional accents like humans, language specialists have suggested.” What actually happened was that a PR [...]
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Crappy journalism in action
24 August 2006 – 1:00 pm
Non-news story of the week
18 July 2006 – 12:16 am
From the BBC: “A cloned human would probably consider themselves to be an individual, a study suggests.”
Well duh.
Duchamp vandalism and BBC fuckwittery
7 January 2006 – 12:24 am
Someone took a hammer to Fountain by Marcel Duchamp. Which is the famous sculpture made from a urinal. I just found the BBC’s phrasing annoying:
A 77-year-old Frenchman has spent a night in custody in Paris after attacking a plain porcelain urinal considered to be a major artwork.
‘considered’ to be a major artwork? It’s one of [...]