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> Qantas Flight 72 is descending in a nose-low altitude for just over 15 seconds Yes, aviation-ignorant editor, he really did mean to write attitude before you
by ralph84 7y ago
> Qantas Flight 72 is descending in a nose-low altitude for just over 15 seconds
Yes, aviation-ignorant editor, he really did mean to write attitude before you changed it to altitude.
- kbcool 7y agoYou assume mainstream newspapers have editors, ones that actually edit, these days :)
- eecc 7y agoUhm, you’re arguing with an automaton, a spelling checker. Apt and ironic, given the circumstances
- mprev 7y agoMore likely a human sub-editor on a paper like the Sydney Morning Herald, surely.
- rosege 7y agoYes I would think so too
- usrusr 7y agowhy would a spell checker prefer altitude over attitude?
- njepa 7y agoI would think that even a slightly sophisticated spell checker would catch this. So arguably a lack of automation. Could of course be a human machine interaction problem, where the misguided human and machine makes errors together.
- L_226 7y agoAustralian here. SMH is known for a generally poorer standard of English usage and editing compared to other news publications (e.g. The Australian).
- anoncake 7y agoOr it's a typo.