Posted on 03/14/2016 11:07:02 AM PDT by nickcarraway
China's state news agency has had to issue a correction after it referred to President Xi Jinping as "China's last leader", an apparent copyediting error.
Xinhua later amended the copy, which had by then been widely reused, and asked outlets to change the reference to "China's top leader".
In the end many outlets simply removed Sunday's article in its entirety.
Such a mishap is extremely rare as references to China's president are believed to be closely scrutinised.
Chinese media is heavily regulated, with government censors often removing content on websites and social media.
The two phrases are just one character different, but are pronounced very differently.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Somebody’s gonna get shot.
heads are literally going to roll
It could have been worse. It could have been North Korea.
Wanna Get Away?
Chinkyspellcheckercorrector?
The former characters literally translate as “rearmost”.
In related news, there’s soon to be an opening for editor.
Have you read the directions that come with your Chinese manufactured product? I’m not surprised at all.
Reminds me of the (now valuable) “the whole country is red” stamp, where they forgot to color Taiwan red, contrary to Red Chinese propaganda. The printer on that one was sweating it out for a while.
I’ll stick with the USA where auto-spellcheck only results in embarrassment.
Chinese media is heavily regulated, with government censors often removing content on websites and social media.
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