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The spelling in this article (at the time of writing) is all over the place. > This is not the D day landing which happened in the > Normandy beaches in June
by bArray 7y ago
The spelling in this article (at the time of writing) is all over the place.
> This is not the D day landing which happened in the
> Normandy beaches in June 1944 but a rehearsal to D day
> landing which killed more than 600 men in friendly fire.
> The second batch met with a fierce fire defensive position
> resulting in the killing of at least 400 soldiers.
> The E boats were driven off after reinforcements arrived
> but the damage is done, 300 more soldiers died in this day
> for D Day rehearsal.
I'm not great at math, but: 400+ + 300 > 600
That doesn't even seem to be the extent of the deaths caused by this operation [1].
It also seems that this article may have been partially/mostly sourced from Wikipedia (for example, look at the bullet points of recommendations in each) [1]. The Wikipedia article also reads better.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Tiger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Tiger
- Benjamin_Dobell 7y agoI read the first few paragraphs without noticing a single typo. Then went to read it out loud to share it with my wife and realised that almost every single sentence contains either a grammatical or spelling error. The brains auto-correct when reading/comprehending is quite impressive.
- foobarbecue 7y agobrain's
- Benjamin_Dobell 7y agoIndeed. Far superior to my phone's auto-correct.
- nabla9 7y agoWhen this auto-correct is too good, you are dyslexic. There are many kinds of dyslexics, of course. In my case it makes it very hard to recognize spelling or grammar errors. Especially in my own text. If I read it and understand it, the brain refuses to see errors. I need to use my finger or a pen to follow the text break this auto-correct.
- moccachino 7y agoThanks for the Wikipedia link. From the results of this exercise it seems it really was necessary, in order to avoid the same catastrophes on D-day itself. However the operation did alert the Nazis that something was up, and they apparently did reinforce the landing sites in preparation for an assault. As a side not since this is HN: The article summary box lists Nazi Germany as a party to the exercise with all of the E-boats, presumably due to article quality control requirements in the Wikipedia system.
- rob74 7y agoI stumbled over "On the built up to the exercise 3000 residents of Slapton were evacuated so safe guard the secrecy of the mission". Funny that the words ("built up" instead of "buildup", "so" instead of "to") are wrong, but gramatically correct - looks like someone used autocorrect, but didn't pay attention if the suggestions made sense :D But what do you expect from a "channel" (no idea how Medium calls them) called "History of Yesterday" that attributes images to "Wiki"?