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39 minutes ago, dilligaf said:

So a pundit is what ?...………...again

The word comes from Sanskrit, Dilli (being an ancient language from India) where a Panditta was “a learned man”. So not Shearer.

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8 hours ago, woolley said:

Proofreading?? Come on!! I don't think the originators even read stuff as they type it half the time. I'd say that in the old days of print, a lot of journalists' bloopers were spotted and corrected during the typesetting process by the old tradesmen with a weary smile. Of course, that backstop is gone now, so a lot of the goofs come straight from the writers' fingers and on to the page. Obviously, new media, the web etc. suffers from this too. There is no belt and braces capacity in the system, no catchall methods for sifting out stuff that shouldn't go out. That and a general lack of pride in the job.

Totally agree. Plus of course our education system doesn't pull people up for spelling and grammar errors.

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