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death of the english language continues
May. 2nd, 2003 12:17 pmFollowing my prediction, the Aertel headlines this morning included "UK - Labour loose 700 local seats", and the OED is now considering an entry for "bling bling".
Note, the Aertel thing isn't arbitrary. They tend, on the whole, to be pretty good about spelling and grammar, what with being our national TV station and all.
Note, the Aertel thing isn't arbitrary. They tend, on the whole, to be pretty good about spelling and grammar, what with being our national TV station and all.
I was wondering why my recently-mentioned scripty for parsing movie listings off Aertel had stopped working; turns out it's because instead of doing a teletext-to-plaintext conversion, they're now doing a teletext-to-IMAGE conversion, so I'm going to have to download an image and convert it to text if I want to continue parsing. It's not as difficult as it sounds because the charset is fixed-pitch and single-font, but it's still a pain in the nads.
