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July 13th, 2009

smeddley: (Much Rejoicing)
Monday, July 13th, 2009 03:09 pm
Mostly by avoiding the internet. So I have some catching up to do, which will happen tonight.

Maybe sooner rather than later - I don't know if I'll manage to drag myself to Belly Dancing and/or Book Club tonight. I should go to both, but the fact that I only got 4 hours of sleep last night is starting to catch up with me. To be honest I'm shocked I've felt as awake as I have to this point. Usually i'd have been dragging all day and damn near nodding off at my desk.

I know that at the end of the day I'll probably be happier if I went, but... inertia is my copilot.
smeddley: (Rocket Surgery)
Monday, July 13th, 2009 08:38 pm
Oh, MI-5... I'm so disappointed in you.

First, in a translation subtitle you say "your welcome". *cringe* But that, at least, was not a plot-fail, just a (sadly) garden-variety grammar-fail.

Now, in a super-sekrit communication between Americans (which is actually a British Agent posing as a stateside American communicating with an American Secretary in England), you use the word 'prioritise'. Because 1) a British Agent is so dumb and untrained they wouldn't know the nuances between British English and American English and 2) an American Official is stupid and would never be alerted by a very British spelling, especially when engaged in very cloak and dagger dealings.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! The American types back to the faux-American and also uses the word 'prioritise'! (which looks so very very very wrong to me and is underlined in red by my spell-checker)

Yeah, yeah, it's a British show and I very much doubt many Brits would have noticed or cared, but dammit, they're supposed to be highly trained operatives. I expected better of them. :/