Spoilt food and horrible English at grand show
(Lanka-e-News- 03.March.2014,
7.30PM) The Deyata Kirula exhibition which showcases Government’s development activities was not without some minor glitches. Public Health Inspectors were on duty at the Kuliyapitiya exhibition site to check on hygiene at food outlets. One detection was startling. There were 400 kilogrammes of spoilt chicken, rancid boiled chick peas and worse enough, a chilling variety of sherbet.
The latter had been made after crushing ice that had been used to preserve fish. Six people were rounded up and produced before courts for selling unhygienic food. Three more are evading the authorities. And the English version of the official website of the exhibition had errors that would make even a GCE (OL) student blush. Here are a few:
From ‘entertaitment’, ‘entairtment’ ‘imlemented’, ‘huge bycyle races’, ‘econimical’, ‘exhibiotion’, ‘theams’ , ‘accomedation’, ‘Auditrum’ to ‘Seniour’, the website was full of spelling and grammar errors. Clearly no one has proof read website inputs before or during this grand state exhibition.
Whoever posted articles on the site, was not aware that it is agenda and not agenta, and continued mentioning agenta in several places.
Ministries too were mentioned incorrectly. It said a vast water supply scheme was opened by Deputy Minister of Water Supply and Water Drainage Nirupama Rajapaksa. They were unaware that it is the Ministry of Water Supply and Drainage.
(Lanka-e-News- 03.March.2014, 7.30PM) The Deyata Kirula exhibition which showcases Government’s development activities was not without some minor glitches. Public Health Inspectors were on duty at the Kuliyapitiya exhibition site to check on hygiene at food outlets. One detection was startling. There were 400 kilogrammes of spoilt chicken, rancid boiled chick peas and worse enough, a chilling variety of sherbet. The latter had been made after crushing ice that had been used to preserve fish. Six people were rounded up and produced before courts for selling unhygienic food. Three more are evading the authorities. And the English version of the official website of the exhibition had errors that would make even a GCE (OL) student blush. Here are a few:
From ‘entertaitment’, ‘entairtment’ ‘imlemented’, ‘huge bycyle races’, ‘econimical’, ‘exhibiotion’, ‘theams’ , ‘accomedation’, ‘Auditrum’ to ‘Seniour’, the website was full of spelling and grammar errors. Clearly no one has proof read website inputs before or during this grand state exhibition.
Whoever posted articles on the site, was not aware that it is agenda and not agenta, and continued mentioning agenta in several places.
Ministries too were mentioned incorrectly. It said a vast water supply scheme was opened by Deputy Minister of Water Supply and Water Drainage Nirupama Rajapaksa. They were unaware that it is the Ministry of Water Supply and Drainage.
