Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee is legislator and chairwoman of think tank Savantas Policy Institute. Recently, she published an article that was less than complimentary of her ex-colleagues’ writing skills.
She starts off by saying:
If your job involves the regular review of English-language government
documentation as mine does, you will agree not a single day passes without
encountering some [...]
Archive for the ‘Grammar’ Category
Regina Ip slates HK Government’s writing
August 10th, 2009
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HKMA – Upcoming Progrmames
July 7th, 2009
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Oops! Someone at the Hong Kong Management Association will be kicking themselves for this blooper.
Apparently, the Professional Institute of Management and Education have problems with their grammar, spelling and style.
Grammar: Learning How to Taste & Discovering Bordeaux Wine
Jargon: Intensive ENS Program
Inconsistencies: Programme/Program, Middlesex University, UK/University of Huddersfield.
Education Bureau: preventing the spread of flu; giving parents a headache
June 15th, 2009
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The folks at the Education Bureau have proved once again that they are masters of complexity. (Which, by the way, is not a good thing!)
Here’s an extract of a template on their website which, they suggest, may be sent to parents explaining the closure of schools.
It’s 885 words that require a college degree, a good [...]
What swine wrote this?
June 5th, 2009
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Noticed on a wall on our university campus:
So, what’s wrong with it? Two things.
1) The major mistake is in the structure. The two verbs ‘join’ and ’seek’ joined by the conjunction ‘and’ share the meaning of ‘not’. If it were written as a list, it would go like this:
Participants are reminded not to:
- join any [...]
