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#3424516 12-Oct-2025 21:42

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Geektastic:

“From New Zealand’s youngest mayor marred in first-term controversy” - Herald.

Classic schoolboy eggcorn.

The word the journalist was searching for and failing to find was ‘mired’.

Maybe but marred sort of works too.

Not quite. Things are marred ‘by’ not ‘in’. On the other hand, things are mired ‘in’ not ‘by’.

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#3424522 13-Oct-2025 02:10

Geektastic:

eracode:

Geektastic:

“From New Zealand’s youngest mayor marred in first-term controversy” - Herald.

Classic schoolboy eggcorn.

The word the journalist was searching for and failing to find was ‘mired’.

Maybe but marred sort of works too.

Not quite. Things are marred ‘by’ not ‘in’. On the other hand, things are mired ‘in’ not ‘by’.

Yep - I know. That’s why I said ‘sort of’. 🙂

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#3424523 13-Oct-2025 02:48

Geektastic:

“From New Zealand’s youngest mayor marred in first-term controversy” - Herald.

Classic schoolboy eggcorn.

The word the journalist was searching for and failing to find was ‘mired’.

I have a good friend who is a very bright guy but has a minor wiring defect in his brain. He frequently comes out with verbal eggcorn, to which he is completely oblivious - but which can be hilarious. Recently we were talking about spicy food and he mentioned ‘canine pepper’.

He has a particular problem with place names too. I have forgotten almost all of his howlers over the years - wish I had written them down just for fun - but not to make fun of him.

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#3424524 13-Oct-2025 03:07

eracode:

Geektastic:

“From New Zealand’s youngest mayor marred in first-term controversy” - Herald.

Classic schoolboy eggcorn.

The word the journalist was searching for and failing to find was ‘mired’.

I have a good friend who is a very bright guy but has a minor wiring defect in his brain. He frequently comes out with verbal eggcorn, to which he is completely oblivious - but which can be hilarious. Recently we were talking about spicy food and he mentioned ‘canine pepper’.

He has a particular problem with place names too. I have forgotten almost all of his howlers over the years - wish I had written them down just for fun - but not to make fun of him.

On this point, a mate of mine went into McDonald’s one day, saw a Smile (pronounced “Smi Ley” by him at the time) on the menu and asked what it was because he saw it was free.

it’s coming up 30 years now and we still remind him of it.

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#3424535 13-Oct-2025 08:47

On the front page of the NZHerald website:

Wonder why they couldn't show a New Zealand (or AU) power plug and socket...

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#3424536 13-Oct-2025 09:00

jamesrt:

On the front page of the NZHerald website:

Wonder why they couldn't show a New Zealand (or AU) power plug and socket...

Because lazy. And/or ignorant.

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#3424591 13-Oct-2025 12:56

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360852328/former-girlfriend-killed-paedophile-lostprophets-singer-speaks-out

No, he wasn't sentenced in 1996. He was sentenced to 29 years imprisonment in 2013.

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#3424592 13-Oct-2025 12:57

And no, the Independent did not report that!

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#3424596 13-Oct-2025 13:11

eracode:

Because lazy. And/or ignorant.

Hey Google, show me a free picture of a power plug that I don't have to pay copyright on. While you are at it, run a car ad with a dog driving on the wrong side of the car. Maybe reverse it next time so it at least looks like you are trying to market it in the right country and are not just cheaping out by running something made for American TV.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#3425843 17-Oct-2025 22:56

Stuff: "Why are NZ spy agencies involved in buying China-made Cook Strait ferries?"

Article: no answer to the question.

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#3429105 30-Oct-2025 08:40

What does AWS have to do with Azure, Stuff?

Oh, both are on the Internet, you say? Why not put your logo there too, then?

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#3429108 30-Oct-2025 08:42

freitasm:

Oh, both are on the Internet, you say? Why not put your logo there too, then?

It's not just the image, it's the URL too... "global-microsoft-and-amazon-outage-internet-down-across-world"

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#3429223 30-Oct-2025 10:13

No, I'm not looking forward to reading the new message in my total of zero messages. I'm just not.

Megabyte - so geek it megahertz

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#3429225 30-Oct-2025 10:23

@1024kb I think you meant to post in the other thread: Examples of brain dead software design as this has nothing to do with news websites.

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#3429263 30-Oct-2025 12:35

A bargain! Surprised the farmers wanted so little!

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