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"melty cheese" I read as a property of the cheese  ie meltable.  "Melted cheese"  refers to the state of being melted at the moment.

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1 hour ago, gfweb said:

"melty cheese" I read as a property of the cheese  ie meltable.  "Melted cheese"  refers to the state of being melted at the moment.

 

Yes, that's what @liuzhou wrote earlier today -- and I concurred. So now we're three. Does that constitute a quorum? 

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Does an English breakfast make men more attractive?


https://www.itv.com/news/2024-03-07/does-an-english-breakfast-make-men-more-attractive

 

I have rarely read such semi-literate garbage in my life. 

 

The UK's ITV (Independent Television) site almost guarantees typos and tortuous sentence structures in every story but even ignoring that, this is patent nonsense.

 

Must have been a slow news day.

 

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I just read this comment in response to an article on a certain internet food site.


"I often ate lotus seeds growing up in congee..."


Was the writer growing up in congee or the lotus seeds?

 

 

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The UK's Independent Television News (ITV) is, for one of the few foreign news sites not blocked by Beijing's paranoid censors.

 

Unfortunately, it is semi-literate at best. Typos and downright errors are the norm. They routinely use 'infer' when they mean 'imply', one of my many pet hates.

 

This garbage assaulted me this morning before my first coffee. Unforgivable!

 

"William Maughan keeps 30,000 free range hens near Darlington. Like all British farmers his birds are vaccinated against salmonella."

 

All farmers aren't vaccinated! All farmers' birds are! Which is what they meant to convey.

 

Grrr!

 

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-03-19/polish-chicken-imports-may-be-banned-as-salmonella-cases-rise

 

 

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