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(January 2018)

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A former member
BBI45 posted:
I understand that getting pedantic over television is the norm here, but being pedantic over the English language is certainly new to me.

But necessary by the looks of it.

Just be thankful the millennium won't be turning again for a few hundred years.
RH
richard h
You just need to be able to tell the time.


So Enda Brady's report just now saying we went 1- 0 after just 4 minutes is wrong too then

The attitude on people on here really is something

After not in .

If you score after 30 seconds, that is in the first minute, so after 1 min 30 it's in the 2nd min etc. Hence a goal at 4 mins 44 secs is in the 5th minute , but "just after" the 4th minute (with a loose definition of "just").


That was a much more constructive response than the first one
WL
W1LL
Mark White’s not having much luck with his vox pops. Half the protestors ignore him, one says she’s protesting simply because “Trump’s ugly” and, my personal favourite, the man who said “not for Rupert Murdoch, f*** off.”
DE
derek500
Mark White’s not having much luck with his vox pops. Half the protestors ignore him, one says she’s protesting simply because “Trump’s ugly” and, my personal favourite, the man who said “not for Rupert Murdoch, f*** off.”


And Beth Rigby's complaining that she didn't get picked to ask a question at yesterday's press conference.

12 days later

LL
London Lite Founding member
Today's Line 18 VT about London postcode gangs really could have done with English subtitles for those of us who don't live in London. Even the reporter's delivery was of someone who lives in Brixton or Tottenham using multi-cultural English. (MCE is a hybrid of West Indian, Asian and Cockney used by younger people in London of all backgrounds)

I understand why Sky need to attract a younger BBC3 style audience, yet there will be some viewers who won't get the urban style format of the package.
LH
lhx1985
I don't think it's an issue of targetting any specific demographic, merely the fact that people speak how they speak.
There are many regional accents/dialects that can be difficult for other English speakers to understand. These include Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool and even parts of my own county, Yorkshire, where the accent can be significantly stronger than the average.

So, by the same token, would you expect a vox-pop with a Geordy or Scouser to have in-vision subtitles?
Those do can't follow can surely hit their own subtitles button on their remote.
WO
Woodpecker
This may or may not be relevant, but Flemish newscasts always subtitle vox-pops, I think because there are some dialects of Dutch spoken in parts of Belgium which diverge a fair bit from standard Dutch, and as such may be difficult to understand for anyone who isn't familiar with said dialects.
BBI45 and London Lite gave kudos
LL
London Lite Founding member
17 mins of MCE, as aired on Sky News today.

RK
Rkolsen
Today's Line 18 VT about London postcode gangs really could have done with English subtitles for those of us who don't live in London. Even the reporter's delivery was of someone who lives in Brixton or Tottenham using multi-cultural English. (MCE is a hybrid of West Indian, Asian and Cockney used by younger people in London of all backgrounds)

I understand why Sky need to attract a younger BBC3 style audience, yet there will be some viewers who won't get the urban style format of the package.


I just watched 9 minutes of that video. As an American I had no issues understanding the words the reporter and intervew subjects were saying. The only time I had difficulty understanding what was being said was during the rap video - but I believe it may have been obscured by Sky as not to promote violence or a gang lifestyle. However one or two expressions from the gang members I didn’t quite understand.
BR
Brekkie
Kay Burley has gone on the run
MC
mccanmat
If everyone who hunt please do not try very hard...hopefully she will continue playing the game until 2038 and not be able to return to sky news 🤣
JW
JamesWorldNews
If everyone who hunt please do not try very hard...hopefully she will continue playing the game until 2038 and not be able to return to sky news 🤣


2038? So she'll just be in time to anchor the News at Nine then. Allowing only a fleeting visit to the production office and make up chair.
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