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> The interesting part of this is the fact that every radio station is required to a special light that turns on when a Royal dies and this is broadcast through

> The interesting part of this is the fact that every radio station is required to a special light that turns on when a Royal dies and this is broadcast throughout the UK by the military. This sentence makes no sense.

rendall 4y ago
Yes. It's almost genius. "required to a special light"? "this is broadcast... by the military"?
- effingwewt 4y ago
  Not everyone's first language is English. I understood exactly what they meant. It's cool, I do this myself sometimes thinking people are talking about the US just because I live here. Just try and be a bit more open minded?
  - rendall 4y ago
    Sure. Mind is all the way open. Pointing out that a sentence doesn't make sense isn't an insult. As a foreigner in Finland, I try to speak Finnish every day. Believe me, I am well familiar with constructing nonsense and being told so. Anyway, the military broadcasts a light? What's going on there?
    - rendall 4y ago
      Ok, so every radio station in the UK has a special light. The light is turned on whenever a royal dies. And then there is a prepared message pre-recorded by the UK military that the radio station broadcasts? How does the station know which royal died? Is the light different colors? Blink different patterns? The station calls the military?
      - srmarm 4y ago
        I'd like to know more too. I can understand that posters vagueness as most of what I can find about it (e.g Wikipedia) is quite vague on the technicalities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Obituary_procedure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Obituar... From what I can gather a network of radio stations has pooled news bulletins and the organisation behind it provides this 'obit light' in it's members radio studios that signify someone important has died and to prepare for a bulletin, upcoming news programming will follow a certain format and the output should be changed to suit the mood. Looks like it's a bit of a legacy thing. They also mention a serial channel that has a 'Major Story Alarm' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Serial_data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Serial_... It'd be interesting to see how it works/worked from tech point of view - perhaps some kind of long wave radio signal on the frequency that the news broadcast is sent from? But yeah, doesn't look like a military thing or that it holds any authority
- avgcorrection 4y ago
  Insert the missing “have” and there you go. Says more about your reading incompetence.

rendall 4y ago

Yes. It's almost genius. "required to a special light"? "this is broadcast... by the military"?

effingwewt 4y ago
Not everyone's first language is English. I understood exactly what they meant. It's cool, I do this myself sometimes thinking people are talking about the US just because I live here. Just try and be a bit more open minded?
- rendall 4y ago
  Sure. Mind is all the way open. Pointing out that a sentence doesn't make sense isn't an insult. As a foreigner in Finland, I try to speak Finnish every day. Believe me, I am well familiar with constructing nonsense and being told so. Anyway, the military broadcasts a light? What's going on there?
  - rendall 4y ago
    Ok, so every radio station in the UK has a special light. The light is turned on whenever a royal dies. And then there is a prepared message pre-recorded by the UK military that the radio station broadcasts? How does the station know which royal died? Is the light different colors? Blink different patterns? The station calls the military?
    - srmarm 4y ago
      I'd like to know more too. I can understand that posters vagueness as most of what I can find about it (e.g Wikipedia) is quite vague on the technicalities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Obituary_procedure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Obituar... From what I can gather a network of radio stations has pooled news bulletins and the organisation behind it provides this 'obit light' in it's members radio studios that signify someone important has died and to prepare for a bulletin, upcoming news programming will follow a certain format and the output should be changed to suit the mood. Looks like it's a bit of a legacy thing. They also mention a serial channel that has a 'Major Story Alarm' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Serial_data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Serial_... It'd be interesting to see how it works/worked from tech point of view - perhaps some kind of long wave radio signal on the frequency that the news broadcast is sent from? But yeah, doesn't look like a military thing or that it holds any authority
avgcorrection 4y ago
Insert the missing “have” and there you go. Says more about your reading incompetence.