Basics in education
Sir, — Your reporting is as bad as your English. On page 9 of “The Press” today you print, no doubt as received, an agency report in which the Iranian city of Tabriz is said to be “650 km south of Teheran.” It is 650 km approximately west-north-west of Teheran; north-west would be acceptable. A few days ago in your editorial article you used the expression “departing for overseas.” This is as absurd as the references by Radio New Zealand (which, incidentally, made Tabriz Dabriz) to "blizzard conditions” and “drought conditions”. How can we expect undergraduates to write good English and to be accurate when the media broadcast illiteracies and inaccuracies? We have enough on our hands. Most arrive from "school” unable to draft simple sentences in their mother tongue. — Yours, etc.,
A. R. CRAWFORD. Professor of Geology,
University of Canterbury. February 21, 1978.
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