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This article has some questionable word choices. "We contacted SpaceX to get its take on ESA's antics, but nothing has yet emerged from Musk's media orifice"
by Deukhoofd 7y ago
This article has some questionable word choices.
"We contacted SpaceX to get its take on ESA's antics, but nothing has yet emerged from Musk's media orifice"
"In 2018, the boffins keeping track of things"
Is this considered professional journalism nowadays?
- userbinator 7y agoThis is the normal style of The Register.
- sp332 7y agoThat's just the Register. Check out some of their other articles, they pretty much have the same kind of jokes.
- ISL 7y agoMany British publications use the term. boffin: Noun (British informal) A person engaged in scientific or technical research. [1] It appears regularly in the Economist, too [2]. [1] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/boffin https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/boffin [2] https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/08/08/how-africa-can-encourage-home-grown-maths-boffins https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/08/08/...
- codeulike 7y agoYou don't often hear Orifice though
- iamnotacrook 7y ago"Is this considered professional journalism nowadays?". No, it's just how that site uses English. They probably think it's funny or something. It's trivial to find an alternative sites for the story.
- monadgonad 7y agoDon't confuse professional with dry and boring.
- teh_klev 7y agoEl-Reg has been a staple of IT news reporting since the 90's, this is their house style. It's an irreverent play on the red top style of reporting used by British tabloids.
- NotSammyHagar 7y agoI love that publication and how the register makes fun of the big tech companies, like calling google "the chocolate factory".
- teh_klev 7y agoThat and "fondle slabs" for Apple devices. It's been my daily coffee-break read since they started all those years ago. I don't know if it's the case now, but they wore their ban from Apple events (for not showing enough fawning) as a badge of pride for many years.
- blauekapelle 7y agoThe register is a very reputable news site, known for their tabloid-parody style with crude jokes, but very good reporting. They've been around since 1994.