Your Letters
16:27 UK time, Wednesday, 3 January 2007
Maximum score in the first of the New Year. It can only go downhill from here...
Sue, London, UK
Following on from bad spelling on CVs, what about bad spelling on film posters? ?!
Paul Greggor, London, UK
MM: At least in the film the characters know that it’s wrong.
Re: Paper Monitor’s thoughts on the Daily Mail’s piece on all the people who have settled in the UK. What have Micronesia and the Marshall Islands got against Britain? I demand that several high ranking politicians spend months and several million pounds to find out.
MCK, London
Re: The debate on Paper Monitor’s gender. Rob, (Tuesday’s letters) in my mind, PM is a 6'2'' rugby playing, short haired man. He has lovely blue/green eyes and big shoulders. He went to University and spent his time drinking vast amounts in the Union bar and reading impressively complicated literature. He inherited a lot of money from a kindly aunt and has a house out in the country. He is kind to animals. Sorry, I'll get a mop and clean up that slobber.
Imogen, London
Re: Why voice-over people speak in numbers in adverts? (Tuesday’s letters) David G, this annoys me too, but I've worked out why they do it. If they can avoid saying "hundred" or "pounds", then stupid people will not notice how outrageously priced they still are despite the "discount".
Lucy Jones, Manchester
Re: Numbers in adverts: As a copywriter I can say that saying "four four nine" is simply a way of saving time in ads where every second counts - "four hundred and forty-nine pounds" is twice as many words, and when you get into the thousands it's even worse. It's ugly, but it's quicker.
Dave, Taunton
I can almost hear the thought processes going on as people attempt the today. We can't call that little fellow Rowley - it sounds like Roly as in Roly Poly. It certainly can't be Fat Charlie (we don't say fat any more, do we?). So it must be Little Anton, because that's nice and inoffensive... Oh. Brothers and sisters, the PC Brigade can't touch you if you're dealing with fact. Repeat after me, and be free... "Fat Charlie! Fat Charlie! Fat Charlie"
John Thompson, Southport, UK
Re: The ongoing observation of people who have appropriate names for their jobs. It seems some organisations have ideal locations. I saw in yesterday's story about that they were taken to the Dogs' Trust Centre... in Kenilworth!
Jackie, Ilford
I love that in your story about the that the top "See Also" link is 'I have a great relationship with the birds'...
Ian, Bristol
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