On 02/08/2024 06:01, jon wrote:
On Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:58:09 +0100, NY wrote:
On 01/08/2024 21:21, jon wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:09:54 +0100, JMB99 wrote:
On 30/07/2024 18:33, jon wrote:
Using the word refraction instead of reflection when reporting on
Southport.
In what context?
The incorrect one.
Since Jon hasn't actually answered JMB's question in helpful way, I'll
hazard a guess at what the context *might* have been:
Maybe the reporter talked about needing "a period of reflection"
(contemplation; stepping back from the problem of the "unrest" to think
about why it may have happened).
I would guess that it wasn't "reflection" in the mirror-image, optical
sense of the word, even if "refraction" is.
I don't like to spell it out for people, its important to give them credit for some common sense. It was clearly a mistake with Artificial
Insemination, sorry 'AI' has changed its meaning again. No optics involved.
You need to give people *some* context if they didn't see the event that
you are referring to. OK, so for some unspecified reason in the
Southport reports, the word "reflection" was used. You don't seem to
want to give us the context, as if we should be able to guess it. Maybe
I guessed correctly, maybe I didn't. And that word was mis-subtitled as "refraction". Intriguing that in this case, unlike a lot of subtitle mondegreens, the two words in this case happened to have a link
(optics). Chance or not? Maybe in the context that "reflection" was
used, "refraction" might have fitted if the AI in the speech-to-text translation tried to guess the right word because it didn't quite "hear"
the word in the reporter's report. Knowing the context would have
allowed us to judge whether that was the case.
There is no harm in stating the obvious; the only "sin" is to give
people so little information that they can't work out what you are
getting at. Remember - you were there, we weren't.
"You should be able to work it out" is infuriating - the very reason
that we are asking because you *haven't* given us enough information to
be able to work it out.
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