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Oops. ACA typos on the rise.

A few typos have been creeping into A Current Affair's graphics department of late.

acatA few typos have been creeping into A Current Affair‘s graphics department of late.

Not sure if Nine cutbacks have affected the spell-checking or not.

But it would help to have a second pair of eyes on some of these given it’s a News programme (know how it feels, guys!).

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20 Responses

  1. For ages (I haven’t been paying attention much lately) Seven Sydney’s weather has frequently got their AM/PM wrong, as in the high/low temps reading the high as being – for example – at 2.17AM when clearly that should be PM. Not so much a typo as a complete lack of attention to detail. Do they get work experience kids to do that job?

  2. The way the English language has been treated over the past decades is sad for me….many times something is written or said…makes me cringe…..but…as Kate Burridge from Can We Help use to say….the language has always been evolving….otherwise we would still be saying thee and thou….
    Although when my now 40yr old son…came home with spelling and punctuation not corrected….I was told that is was more important the children were socialised…and these things were not important…

  3. Andy Pandy don’t you mean
    Are the graduates from the graphics department at Uni unable to spell?
    not Did the people in the graphics department graduate from Uni unable to spell?

  4. Makes you wonder what kids learn in school these days. Why would they need spell check for a simple word like “feud”?
    Did the people in the graphics department graduate from Uni unable to spell?

  5. Sorry I never thought it to be a typo, as I just assumed that ACA deliberately left out two ‘letters’ after watching a bickering family waste money by giving it to lawyers.

    Possible a good compromise may have been to calculate minimum total legal and court costs and double it (more accurate), deduct that from the estate value, then divide the remainder by three, that way the philanthropist could have added his share to the calculated legal cost etc. as anything ( for all concerned) is better than the 50 : 50 chance of possibly nothing.

  6. @Jason – ‘lose’/’loose’, ‘could of’ instead of ‘could have’, and weird stuff like ‘littlelone’ instead of ‘let alone’.

  7. David, you’ve made a mistake of your own in the above – you referred to ACA as a news program. Nine News barely qualifies as a news program let alone this muck.

  8. As a general comment, I cry at the basic errors repeated on this site by posters – such as the wrong their/there/they’re, 60’s instead of 60s, were/where, hear/here, then/than, etc., etc.
    “I Watch aca better then sevens lot”.
    I suspect we’re hearing from the ACA captioner?
    “I watch ACA. Better than Seven’s lot” – perhaps?

  9. I love those pics Nine shows of their control room, with so many people doing ???. Certainly not looking at what’s going to air.
    WIN have shifted this program to GO! or GEM or somewhere.

  10. These supers are prepared in advance, and surely the system could have an auto spell-checker bolted on (if it doesn’t have one built in). It isn’t live captioning for goodness sake.

  11. “But it would help to have a second pair of eyes on some of these. given it’s a News programme (know how it feels, guys!).”
    So is the fullstop after these in that sentence a joke or an ironic mistake? It’s too early in the morning to tell…

  12. What is nine coming to, since being taken over by the hedge funds and all the redundancies and privileges being taken from people what will happen next?

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