Jun 08

Unexcusable Mistakes

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Martin Yau, my co-host of the “I Love Public Speaking Club” talk show posted the following entry to his Business English forum.

There is a website for English language training in China owned by a certain David Wu who is popular in the show business and a few Chinese from overseas.

That site was mentioned by an American teacher to me over a conversation. I checked it out and found to my horror a few common grammatical mistakes just in one simple blog entry by David Wu himself.
My stubborn quality control mind jumped into action again.

I hope that David Wu himself did not post that entry on the site. A busy show business person like Wu is unlikely to be sitting down and punch the keyboard. Whoever did that for Wu is not good enough to write in English, anyhow.

As English majors, tell us what you find wrong with the following item:-

Talk da Talk
Yes,I’m sort of know around as the, “English Teacher” on T.V. Ever since Channel V’s “Go West” program came out, learning English has took on a whole different meaning. It was then that people start to realize that there are so much more to a language than just what you read in text…
Posted by David Wu @ 06:58 08-06-2007 | Comments(0) | Add to favorites(0)

http://www.talkdatalk.com

Well, a website for the purpose of English language education, its webmaster must make sure someone scrutinizes every single word and removes errors before the pages are viewed by the prospective students and the public.

No one is too overly concerned about language problems on an ordinary business website. It would be a crime (punishable in my mind) if substantial errors slip into English language training sites though.
By the way, that short entry is not the only item containing common mistakes. It’s all over the place. Use your eagle eyes to pick them up.

That reminds of a lady foreign teacher telling me that she is using the local English daily in class to make students pick up their grammatical mistakes as a learning process.

Enjoy!

Martin “patrols” websites that contain English content in China like this regularly. You can get a glimpse of how English is “butchered” in the cyberspace from his posts.

: Unexcusable Mistakes

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