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Ghoulish Delight 07-24-2013 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 369497)
Царна́ев (this one I actually knew but still copied from Wiki because I'm not set up to type Cyrillic).

More specific [/trebek]. It specified the SURVIVING suspect. That could refer to either of them.

Equally clueless on the soda. Huh?

Alex 07-24-2013 09:45 PM

I do like that the Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev page title on Wikipedia gets translated to The Brothers Tsarnaev on the Russian version of the page.

Makes it sounds more literary.

Moonliner 07-25-2013 06:39 AM

Now I really feel old.

The Soda is Dr Pepper

(The catch being that there is no period after Dr)

Alex 07-25-2013 09:24 AM

How old are you? What I'm finding is that slogan dates to the '30s and '40s.

(And I'll stand by a spelling test as a journalism boot camp seems like pointless make work.)

Moonliner 07-25-2013 09:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 369502)
How old are you? What I'm finding is that slogan dates to the '30s and '40s.

(And I'll stand by a spelling test as a journalism boot camp seems like pointless make work.)

I think the idea behind the exercise was to drive home the point that in Journalism things like spelling and grammar are important.

Don't know about the rest of the country, but down in Texas "10 2 and 4" was a common thing to see well into the 80's.

Alex 07-25-2013 10:28 AM

But they're not particularly (well grammar and basic spelling are so that your editor knows what you're saying). And especially not when it comes to transliterated names for which there is not often a "correct" spelling but at best a house style.

To the best of my recollection as a child resident of the Pacific Northwest, I've never heard that slogan for Dr Pepper before. "Be a Pepper" being about where my awareness kicks in.

SzczerbiakManiac 08-01-2013 01:38 PM

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner claims he's not liable for sexually harassing eight women because the city failed to provide him with sexual harassment training.

Ghoulish Delight 08-01-2013 11:54 PM

Why would he need training? He's clearly an expert.

SzczerbiakManiac 08-02-2013 05:07 PM

It seems that Gay, Russian, Neo-Nazis are a thing.

Moonliner 08-02-2013 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac (Post 369566)

Thanks to the Internet, we now know everything is a thing.


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