pTeronaut

US visa dreams dashed by 'glitch' [BBC News]

S Folinsky

The BBC item is correct. However, your caption here is not -- the number of "winners" was correct -- however, 90% of the "entrants" were improperly excluded from the pool for selection.

From what I understand, Department of State became aware of the "glitch" almost immediately. Realizing that they were at this famous California intersection, there was probably a collective "whoops" and they had to figure out how to minimize the litigation that is sure to follow. [My good friend Terry Yale Fiertag jokes that he "... made a lot of money for other attorneys" as a result of his pro bono representation of one Refugio Silva from a FUBAR of the Visa Office.]

pTeronaut

Probably, my original caption was "DVL drawing a fix?" which as a question would have most probably been appropriate.

fatbrit

Try the infamous but popular Daily Fail if you want a totally misleading headline:

Congratulations, you're now an American... er, sorry, we made a mistake: 50,000 immigrants who won visa lottery are stripped of citizenship after computer glitz


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ry-system.html

dunroving

Bloody British journos can't even use English properly - it's glitch - glitz is glittery stuff. Morons.

I even find stuff like this on the BBC News Web site and newspapers like the Times these days. Product of a permissive, liberal teaching philosophy that crept in during the 90s onwards.

Bob

Suddenly a glut of tickets to Florida get cancelled

Derrygal

Americans can't spell either - I see it everyday at work. I am embarrassed to read some of the internal emails my manager sends me - her spelling is atrocious - and she went to college - I didn't! This isn't just one person either - I see it all the time here.

ian-mstm

Sadly, the US school system has changed from educating little Johnny, to helping little Johnny feel good about himself. Anyway, that's a topic for another thread!

Ian

S Folinsky

For years I have noted the increasing inability of people to write a clear and coherent sentence. That said, I now blame the increasing use of spell checkers as a factor -- "It is with grate pried ..." does not note on this "cite" as having "great" and "pride" being misspelled.

ian-mstm

Ode to the Spell Checker

Eye halve a spelling chequer.
It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl mistakes!

Ian