Friday, July 6, 2007

'Factual Inaccuracies We Were Unable to Correct'

At work yesterday, there was some joking about famous NYT corrections (the guy who DIDN'T have his testicles removed, the confusion between a veteran and a Bedouin of Israeli politics, the misnaming of the Yellow Rat Bastard store, etc.), so much chortling that we almost missed a current event:

But, thanks to Regret the Error, we know that the wonderful Language Log has been taking apart an amazingly credulous BBC report about a parrot and its vocabulary.

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