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When Twitter Word Order Goes Badly Wrong
AP wasn't hacked this time, but the following tweet shows why when constrained by 140 characters, one should be particularly careful with word order.
BREAKING: Dutch military plane carrying bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash lands in Eindhoven.
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 23, 2014
Leading promptly to this:
CLARIFIES: Dutch military plane carrying Malaysia Airlines bodies lands in Eindhoven.
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 23, 2014
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Jeeze. Took me a couple of reads...
Sometimes you just can't catch a break can you?
People who enjoy and follow twatting need to bring their head in for a pap smear.
I didn't know the Uke's worked for AP ... at least their correction time is improving!
Regards,
Cooter
well, it's the AP, state-run, lap-dog, retard "media"...nobody should expect propper grammar or even factual statements for that matter.
What a difference a comma can make.
Or a letter.
"What a difference a coma can make."
Stay classy, AP.
They should just change their name to the Associated Pravda.
And do you really need to tweet that to begin with?
Captain Wi Tu Lo.
Here is the one I use:
Woman, without her, man is nothing
Woman, without her man, is nothing
Throw me down the stairs my shoes.
No price too high! or,
No, price too high!
Granddaughter texts: So Grandpa, are you going to bang Grandma?
Grandpa replies: Sorry, but that door closed long before you were born.
Granddaughter: OMG, that was supposed to be "bring", damn autocorrect!
Let's eat grandma!
Let's eat, grandma!
Punctuation saves lives.
Let's shoot Dad.
Let's shoot, Dad.
commas save lives.
Waiting for US State Dept accusation of Russian involvement in 2nd Dutch crash - and then subsequent redaction...
first we'll need supporting YouTube clip ..... then retraction
One's just crashed in Taiwan. Will that do?
A tweet is a terrible thing to waste.
Smithers fire that twitter reporter..
Reminds me of a Carlin routine. At 3:22 "They might tell you that you're on a non-stop flight. I insist my flight stop! Preferrably at an airport. It's those sudden, unscheduled corn field stops that seem to interrupt the flow of my day!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DagVklB4VHQ
If the first crash didn't kill them the second one definitely did.
You only die twice.
The new Bond film.
Extreme double tap.
.
Waiting for this: And said bodies now can not be identified.
But where will they bury the survivors?
Stupid azz AP...
Let's EAT KIDS
Let's EAT, Kids...
COMMAS SAVE LIVES!!!
Sorry - a comma, wouldn't fix the headline.
But, it would have helped...
Pretty much any kind of proof-reading before clicking "send" would have helped.
No, but a coma may have caused it.
Fuck you are right
Fuck; you are right
.
I saw what you did there...
Good Panda: Eats shoots and leaves.
Rude Panda: Eats shoots, and leaves.
Gangsta Panda: Eats, shoots, and leaves.
Damn, I hit the sell on that news. Can I get my monee back?
Just think of all the algos that got 'freaked' out...
"Russian BUK Missile Hits Plane Landing in Eindhoven--Kerry"
'BUK disguised in nearby windmill--CIA"
If I was a Tyler I would have titled this post.
When THE Twitter Word Order Goes Badly Wrong."If I were a Tyler..."
Subjunctive case.
[You're welcome - The Grammer Nazis]
Is your name really Pool Snark?
"You're welcome - The Grammar Nazis"
[You're welcome - The Spelling Nazis]
Maybe he is a Tyler.
No need to clarify. The correct usage of "crash-lands" uses a hyphen.
It pisses me off how marketers are too dumb to use hyphenated words. "FAT FREE" isn't synonymous with "fat-free".... at least until you butcher the language non-stop for years and it effectively acquires that imprecise meaning.
In English or American ?
I think that your getting too technical for most people. Their not really wordsmiths.
pods
your rite...
Noone rights good anymore...
For all intensive purposes.
I don't recall hyphens being that well covered in skool.
Then again, I might have been sent to the principal's office that day.
As a result, I'm often guilty of over-using them in an effort to make-up any deficiencies.
first ... math went to hell... and now grammar follows...
we ARE in idiocracy already....
p.s. don't even mention geography...
(where is waldo ?) -lol
I could care less wat you say, your an idiot.
;)
Your grasp of proper grammar is showing ... you typed 'you' instead of 'u'.
U spelt grammer wrong and you dont need those three dots. They confuse the meaning of you're sentence.
We Open
MH17 Chameleon: Operation Rapid Trident II
The announcement of U.S. BREEZE and RAPID TRIDENT II military maneuvers came on May 21, 2014 by Vice President Joe Biden’s office. Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is a newly-named director of the Ukrainian natural gas and oil company Burisma Holdings, Ltd., owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, the Ukrainian-Israeli mafia oligarch, who is known as the «Chameleon». Kolomoisky has raised his own mercenary army, complete with the BUK missiles allegedly used in the shootdown of MH-17. Kolomoisky, the Governor of Dnipropetrovsk oblast in eastern Ukraine, has threatened terrorist attacks against Russian-speaking officials in eastern Ukraine, including assassinations.
MH17 Chameleon: Operation Rapid Trident II
Love people, cook them tasty food.
Love people? Cook them. Tasty food.
I guess paying attention in grammar class was important after all...
OU812
GRAMMA NEVA WENT TO KLASS AT SKOOL!
Throw the cow over the fence some hay.
You would think that the character constraint would force some review or thought before posting. Nope, just faster, stream of consciousness writing.....
Fuck her! Right? In the pussy.
Dr. Engali......You are one funny person!! HaHa! That was classic!
I would suggest this article.
Top 10 Rules of Punctuation
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/07/no_author/top-10-rules-of-punctuation/
LOL...and I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse...
"BREAKING: Dutch military plane carrying bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash lands in Eindhoven."
Interesting, same basic theme happened in the new FX tv series 'The Strain'. Only it didn't crash land.
Tweets are For Twits & Twats.
Fuck Twitter
Narcissists and the syckophants that encourage them.
Translated by the same people who translate Putin to English.
that's what you get for hiring indians
Well if the Indian's got anything right, it would be the english...ironically.
That's why they invented comas.
I just went into one after reading that
This is what passes for 'journalism' today. The great newspaper reporters and journalists (prior to 1970) are rolling over in their graves.
They arrived minus all their jewerly, money, and anything of value..that is for sure
Air Force One crashes outside of Detroit. The cause was determined to be from Obama giving head to the pilot.
Sometimes you don't need a comma.
It took them 9 minutes to realise what they had done.
Proper grammar here is not a comma, but a hyphen. It should have read:
Dutch military plane carrying bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17-crash lands in Eindhoven.
funny to read ppl playing with grammar while their .gov announced 1 year ago than next child generation will not learn to write with pencil but only on a keyboard.
i cannot prevent myself to smile while looking my screen now.
A Tweet is a mental fart.....Everybody's happy when it goes away...
Does this bullshit drive another 3% bump for TWTR? Because, you know, it's just so important and critical to the world now.
Doh!
I still don't get it. So the bodies are carriers of Dutch military planes?
You got it. That's why flight 17 crashed - the bodies just couldn't carry a Malaysian civilian plane for the full flight.