The K-man's finest hour(s)

Dr_Milker · May 30, 2018, 7:56am

You’re dark, man. I was thinking of a plucky hero and lots of upbeat musical numbers.

the_bear · May 30, 2018, 8:02am

Some friends become enemies, some enemies friends. At the end your main character is richer from the experience.

Dr_Milker · May 30, 2018, 8:04am

As is the broth.

Brianjones · May 30, 2018, 12:20pm

I was already feeling pretty crabby but this story really stuck in my craw.

Thanks for nothing K-man!

mad_masala · May 30, 2018, 1:24pm

So you are saying that these two things are incompatible:

non-native [English] speakers
professional journalists

Bad bear…

Dr_Milker · May 30, 2018, 1:26pm

In Chinese, we call this 做賊心虛.

mad_masala · May 30, 2018, 1:28pm

How can I stop liking your comments if they are like this one xD

Dr_Milker · May 30, 2018, 1:29pm

We all do things we regret…

mad_masala · May 30, 2018, 1:30pm

No idea what that means!

Dr_Milker · May 30, 2018, 1:30pm

Probably for the better. You can ask your ex to explain it for you.

mad_masala · May 30, 2018, 1:32pm

Who is my ex? I’m overly confused.

Explain it in plain Latin if you are a man-cow.

the_bear · May 30, 2018, 1:34pm

No, just in Taiwan. Non-natives shouldn’t write for an English newspaper unless there is a native editor to fix their copy.

Dr_Milker · May 30, 2018, 1:35pm

E pluribus bite me.

mad_masala · May 30, 2018, 1:38pm

Damn, I forgot to bring the Latin dictionary to Taiwan…

mad_masala · May 30, 2018, 1:43pm

Hmmmmm… it sounds like an biassed, interested stand point. I mean, I get that it would be more than advisable to have writers and editors with English as mother tongue, but… a requirement for having a website with some news in English? hmmmm… you can just laugh at their English if you want, but to be a non-native English speaker writing news in a Taiwan based online “newspaper” doesn’t make you less professional as a journalist.

To copy crappy stories from facebook on the other hand makes you a very shitty journalist, a bottom feeder. although that’s the general trend anywhere nowadays…

Brianjones · May 30, 2018, 1:45pm

He said editor, probably to clean up any grammar and usage issues . Nobody would question a non native English speaker journalist.

mad_masala · May 30, 2018, 1:47pm

Didn’t he?

the_bear · May 30, 2018, 1:53pm

No one working at the Taiwan News could call themselves a professional journalist regardless of native or non-native status. A professional journalist researches a story and verifies and double-checks facts. These guys just translate Chinese media reports or Facebook posts badly.

mad_masala · May 30, 2018, 1:55pm

Agreed, but… still I …

I’ll come back later.

Dr_Milker · May 30, 2018, 1:57pm

What rock have you been hiding under for the last several years?