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ghost2 ([personal profile] ghost2) wrote2008-11-23 04:04 pm
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Something that makes my NaNo efforts look a lot better

I would like to know why someone has twice added the following garbled information to the profile of Arcangues, racehorse, at Wikipedia:

However, the product piece did not run very much, and it was a sad ending called the slaughter house forwarding that waited for a horse. It is a thing since Ferdinand to have become the slaughter house forwarding at a Breeders' Cup Classic championship horse.

The English language can become a very ugly thing in the hands of the wrong people.
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[identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh! *shudders*

[identity profile] ghost2.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Even sadder, the text in question was deleted for being ungrammatical (and possibly incorrect, in part), and the person who initially posted it then came back and REPOSTED the thing. :(
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[identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com 2008-11-25 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no!!

[identity profile] phlegethon-vii.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Didnae understand a bleedin' word...and I'm gonna assume that's not just coz I'm more of a dog person :p

[identity profile] ghost2.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep, the grammar is the main issue here. The author meant to say something like this:

However, his offspring did not run well, and eventually Arcangues was sent to a slaughterhouse. He (after Ferdinand) is the second Breeders' Cup Classic winner to die in such a manner.

Doesn't bear too much resemblance to the original passage, does it?

[identity profile] phlegethon-vii.livejournal.com 2008-11-25 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Either way, it sucks for the horse.

[identity profile] cersia5.livejournal.com 2008-11-25 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Can we say that the person said the same thing twice without really saying anything at all...helpful? :P

Completely random snipet: Mysterious and maliciously evil looking device known as a Bubble Gum Machine.
Edited 2008-11-25 01:06 (UTC)

[identity profile] ghost2.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
I think that is a very fair assessment.