But this evening, I found something even worse. The Islamic month of Ramadan is upon us, and the Washington Post has an article discussing the calculation of when the month actually
Arabic is written from right to left, unlike English, which flows from left to right. If you can read Arabic, you'll immediately recognize that the word 'Ramadan' in that graphic is backwards! It would be as if i typed it as 'nadamaR' in English.
It should look like this:
رمضان
Again, edit these things before you publish them, Washington Post! This is basic journalism!
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UPDATE: Within a half-hour of the publication of this post, the Washington Post pulled the graphic offline. We'll update again if/when they post a replacement graphic.UPDATE II: The graphic is actually still there. There are two links from the article to get to it. One is bad, one still works.
Is there a blog out there just for Washington Post errors?
ReplyDelete*facepalm*
ReplyDeleteThat's really atrocious.
I think you mean "when the month actually BEGINS"
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: True. Fixed.
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