Five-Star Hotel Hooker Horror – Jakarta Post Grammar Probe?
Prostitution has been there since my childhood but we have hypocrite and posed not to know about it,” kompas.com quoted him as saying here on Monday.
That’s allegedly Jakarta’s Governor Ahok speaking, about a ‘high-class pimp’ story hitting headlines here.
He also said he did not know the number of ublic officials using sex workers’ service but many have abused their power to pay the high tariff.
- He admitted he had difficulties to eliminate prostitution, including the online one, in the capital city.
I am content to grant that the word ‘ublic’ is just a misprint for ‘public.’ Thanks be it was not misprinted as ‘pubic!’
But the abominable standard of English must surely make the newspaper a laughing-stock, not least among those who, like myself, have in the past described it as part of the ‘English-language media.’
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- Ahok of course did not use those words attributed to him – he would have spoken in Indonesian and the bizarre rendering of his quote is entirely down to whichever English-language ‘expert’ translated it and the ‘editorial’ staffer who approved it.
Perhaps some of my former students who spent most of class-time playing with their hand-phones?
It’s early morning here and I’ll check out other media later, hoping to uncover the interesting parts of the story – e.g. the name of the posh hotel, never mind the celebrity slapper – carefully concealed.
But I remain convinced nothing will be quite as shocking as that grotesque grammar!
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Grovelling Gramedia’s Book–Burning Bonanza – Appeasing Fanatics
I’m reading the ‘online one,’ of course, not the paper edition, so don’t yet know if that shares the short-comings.
If so, will Gramedia, who own the JP, recall all today’s copies and subject them to the book-burning process for which they are notorious?
Andy H, 
Elwyn, 
Graeme M, and 4 others are discussing. 
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JazPen 09:42 on May 12, 2015 Permalink |
You hit the nale on the hed,Ross. They’re grammer is worse than mine.
A trooly terribel noozpaper.
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Santi 10:03 on May 12, 2015 Permalink |
Maybe the other media has her name because I am looking now at who is the selebrity AA.
But she said she is not in the hotel.
Maybe my grammar is not so bad as Jakarta Post editors. Can I maybe get new job?
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Irfan 10:27 on May 12, 2015 Permalink |
My English too is not very well but I see how bad is this Jakarta Post. Very funny.
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Julie English 11:38 on May 12, 2015 Permalink |
It was I think Prince Philip who memorably called the Daily Express ‘a bloody awful newspaper.’
What he would have made of the Jakarta Post, I hate to think.
Their bias is an editorial prerogative but why so slipshod in production.
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Graeme M 12:10 on May 12, 2015 Permalink |
So instead of telling you that it’s beneath the Jakarta Post to approach you because you were once an English teacher, that comment a few months ago should have been urging them to find as many English teachers as they could to improve their inadequate employees..
I’m an English teacher here and was going to rely to that person’s insult to the profession at the time but didn’t get around to it.
So now I have.
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Elwyn 14:31 on May 12, 2015 Permalink |
Question – why does the Jakarta Globe have far fewer grammar errors than the Jakarta Post?
Possible Answer- – if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys?.
True or not?
I know the Globe is owned by one of the richest people in Indonesia.
Gramedia, on the other hand, may be less wealthy.
But you are right, Gramedia’s book-burning stinks.
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Andy H 11:29 on May 13, 2015 Permalink |
If they had principles, their grammar wouldn’t bother me.
BUT
I remember they kept very low key and therefore kept publishing during Suharto’s dictatorship.
Now they bow and scrape to the Jihadists.
Principles? Or would their subeditors spell it Principals?
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