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What a poorly written article. It twice says that the plane "dropped/descended 1500m," when it should be written "dropped TO [an altitude of] 1500m." (assuming
by gklitt 13y ago
What a poorly written article. It twice says that the plane "dropped/descended 1500m," when it should be written "dropped TO [an altitude of] 1500m." (assuming I'm understanding the article correctly). A newspaper should at least have sufficient grammar standards to clearly convey the main point of a story.
- lutusp 13y ago> What a poorly written article. It twice says that the plane "dropped/descended 1500m," when it should be written "dropped TO [an altitude of] 1500m." As it turns out, only the headline suggests that the plane descended to an altitude of 1500m, not the article body, which always says the aircraft descended 1500m. The headline includes the words "MH370 flew as low as 1,500m to avoid detection" [emphasis added], but this language is never repeated in the article itself. It's important also to say this article may have been translated from Malay, which could affect its readability. > A newspaper should at least have sufficient grammar standards to clearly convey the main point of a story. Fair enough, but I think the headline didn't originate with the source of the article.
- gregsq 13y ago"Descended 1500 meters, or even lower" has less substantive meaning than "descended to 1500 meters, or even lower". The same is true of the other phrase containing the 1500 metre measure. Bad construction, but I'll assume they simply left out the 'to' in both instances.
- yen223 13y ago>It's important also to say this article may have been translated from Malay, which could affect its readability. The article was from the New Straits Times, which is an English-language newspaper. The initial report may have been written in Malay though.