More Cowbell! ([info]anomie666) wrote in [info]_b0st0n_snark,
2008-01-29 13:39:00
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MATA in da 'house!

The esteemed Boston Metro gets a huge spellcheck fail.




In case you can't read it from the crappy cell phone pic, the word highlighted in yellow is "Mata", not "MBTA". The letter A isn't very close to B on the keyboard, so this is a spellcheck fail of epic proportions. Hey, I'll just run spellcheck and accept all of the changes without looking.

The tagline to the metro is: The world's largest global newspaper. I think this should be changed.

Boston Metro: You get what you pay for.
Boston Metro: We at least try really hard.
Boston Metro: We make real newspapers look good.
Boston Metro: Bringing the Lulz since 2001.

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[info]sparkgrrl658

January 29 2008, 18:50:27 UTC 4 years ago

a-mazing.

this person is fired. [in my book, probably not the metro's.]

[info]thetathx1138

January 29 2008, 18:51:22 UTC 4 years ago

Forget fired. They should start shooting their copy editors. Shit might get DONE then.

[info]anomie666

January 29 2008, 18:56:43 UTC 4 years ago

Bullets are always effective.

[info]lunarcamel

January 29 2008, 21:40:51 UTC 4 years ago

I can only hope, if they *have* copy editors, that they don't get paid. I was copy chief of the student paper in college, and we did better than that for $6/hr.

[info]jerel

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[info]thetathx1138

January 29 2008, 18:50:45 UTC 4 years ago

The copy/paste errors are always a hoot. Somebody tries to trim off a few column inches and suddenly you have a dangling partic

[info]mperrotti76

January 29 2008, 18:57:02 UTC 4 years ago

Hey. Hey, you. Wanna see my 'dangling participle'?

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[info]anomie666

January 29 2008, 18:58:21 UTC 4 years ago Edited:  January 29 2008, 18:58:50 UTC

I always laugh when I see thing things like that. Its not that hard to stop this from occur

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[info]david_grana

January 29 2008, 21:16:26 UTC 4 years ago

Oh man, don't tell me Candlejack is behind all this bullsh

[info]ron_newman

January 29 2008, 19:44:03 UTC 4 years ago

is "Mata" a word in English?

[info]anomie666

January 29 2008, 19:47:04 UTC 4 years ago

I'm assuming it had to have either been programmed into that particular person's spellcheck "safe" list or else it is some word. There has to be a reason why it would systemically turn MBTA into Mata.

[info]derspatchel

January 29 2008, 19:50:35 UTC 4 years ago

You'd think a Boston paper would've added MBTA to its spellcheck dictionary, but then again, this is the Metro we're dealing with here.

[info]thetathx1138

January 29 2008, 20:26:46 UTC 4 years ago

Sure. There's the weight of the mata, dark mata, family matas, all sorts of mata!

[info]catullus_5

January 29 2008, 21:05:18 UTC 4 years ago

Let's face it, you can't Torquemata anything!

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[info]mperrotti76

January 29 2008, 20:29:00 UTC 4 years ago

Only if followed by Hari, and then still a Sanskrit word.

[info]eeka13

January 30 2008, 01:10:59 UTC 4 years ago

It's "he/she/it kills" in Spanish, which is why I found this story particularly ironic (I blogged it as well).

[info]icecreamempress

January 30 2008, 18:41:11 UTC 4 years ago

It's a last name.

I have no idea why they had "Mata" in their spellcheck.

[info]icecreamempress

January 30 2008, 18:43:00 UTC 4 years ago

Mata isn't in the LJ spellcheck, either. Weirdly, it picks up "LJ" and "spellcheck" as wrong, but Mata is just fine. Mata Mata Mata. mata with no capital letter is bad, though.

[info]ifotismeni

January 29 2008, 20:12:11 UTC 4 years ago

MAKE IT STOP

[info]ron_newman

January 29 2008, 20:31:14 UTC 4 years ago

Love your icon. One of the classic front pages of all time.

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[info]icecreamempress

January 30 2008, 18:42:02 UTC 4 years ago

Crime may be low on the Mata, but when it comes to crumb on the MBTA, there's more than ever!

[info]j3ss

January 29 2008, 22:29:33 UTC 4 years ago

They just "lost" their publisher and eight staffers last week. I thought this post was going to be about the Massachusetts Association of Trial Attorneys.

[info]thetathx1138

January 30 2008, 17:29:46 UTC 4 years ago

How do you "lose" a publisher and eight staffers? Did they leave them in their other newsroom?

[info]j3ss

January 30 2008, 19:20:33 UTC 4 years ago

Those newspaper mail rooms get awfully messy!

[info]missing_thewar

January 29 2008, 22:35:14 UTC 4 years ago

maybe they confused it with atlanta's MARTA ...

i'm sure the atlanta metro would love to hire them :P
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