dracenstein
11-Jul-2008, 07:50 PM
Have you read a headline or something and you have read it incorrectly and got the wrong meaning?
For example, on BBC's Ceefax (the tv teletext pages for non-UK residents) on 10 July, I read the following news headline;
Student murders accused in court.
I read it as meaning,
Student kills someone accused of something in court.
But it really meant that the man accused of killing those two French students had appeared in court as part of the crime process.
Lol at me!
This reminded me of that old telegram message a reporter sent from the USA to the UK (GB as it was then);
President shot Buffalo.
The UK press ignored it because they weren't interested in the president shooting an animal. But it really meant that the president had been shot in Buffalo City.
Garbled communications.
Sorry, I forgot which president it was, and when, but I believe it was during the twenties (I could, and probably am, wrong), when the telegram was so expensive that they cut the message to bare minimum word count.
Anybody else had similar misreading headlines?
For example, on BBC's Ceefax (the tv teletext pages for non-UK residents) on 10 July, I read the following news headline;
Student murders accused in court.
I read it as meaning,
Student kills someone accused of something in court.
But it really meant that the man accused of killing those two French students had appeared in court as part of the crime process.
Lol at me!
This reminded me of that old telegram message a reporter sent from the USA to the UK (GB as it was then);
President shot Buffalo.
The UK press ignored it because they weren't interested in the president shooting an animal. But it really meant that the president had been shot in Buffalo City.
Garbled communications.
Sorry, I forgot which president it was, and when, but I believe it was during the twenties (I could, and probably am, wrong), when the telegram was so expensive that they cut the message to bare minimum word count.
Anybody else had similar misreading headlines?