Lost In Translation

[sir.prize]

Good old BBC!

http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/01/chinese-new-year-bbc-welcomes-year-of-the-whores-in-caption-fail-4286753/

[jno]

nice one. Their robot subtitling often goes wrong, I've noticed

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/17/ofcom-crack-down-poor-subtitles

A moment's violence for the Queen Mother's funeral, forsooth

[Peter Pedant]

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There were previous years of hilarity for deaf folk who had nothing better to do . They now seem to have a clerk lurking who now corrects it at the end of the paragraph.

I liked the comment of one oldster - year of the whores - should be an interesting one....

to be fair to the Beeb - these are linguistic doublets - words only differing by a sounded/unsounded consonant - bip and pip - teeth and teethe, glacier/glazier
Either one word drops out or there is a vowel (bowel) change - as in glas - sier and glayzier.

whores are gonna hang in there I think - which means that horse will change its pronounciation....

[ToraToraTora]

That happens a lot, apparently the army where using ambiguous Vehicles in the flood the other day!

[Peter Pedant]

only a matter of time before the ambiguous vehicles decide to become ambidextrous.....