So many NETs in Korea have made fun of the brutal reporting in the Korea Times that I almost feel like I'm flogging a dead horse by bringing it up. Although the issue hasn't yet been resolved, it seems like it never will be. Then again, maybe if enough people complain and draw attention to it, they'll actually get a credible editor. You know...someone who can read and write in English? How can one of the top two English newspapers in Korea, a "world class" source, actually let an article with this many grammatical errors slide? It's painful and it sounds like it was written by a high school ESL student. We all make mistakes from time to time while typing, but I don't go submitting crappy, unedited pieces to newspapers for publication. Sigh...I guess we can figure out who is the target audience for this paper. (Hint: It's not Native English speakers.)
I'll link the article to the title, as well as copy and paste it here, just in case it's taken down later.
Check it out:
'Super' Earth reported to exist
The existence of the earth’s siblings would be fresh to people.
There are planets very similar to Earth, including the new one 10 times bigger in size. The planet is called “Super Earth.”
Some have continents and oceans, too, as seen on Earth. There is also an extremely dried one like Mars.
The other one which belongs to ocean planet is fully covered in the water of ocean and is called Gliese 581C. No continents are found in the middle of the water. The planet was discovered by Michel Mayor and it revolves a very small fixed star with the other two. It is 20 light years away and located in Libra.
Until March 2009, Gliese 518c was the smallest planet outside the solar system. However, it was still super earth since it was five times bigger than the earth. The wind of the planet would be the same as the one of the earth since it has white clouds up in its blue sky.
The weather of 518c is perfect as its sky is always blue. There is also no need of weather forecast since the sun is always in the same spot.
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Painful. I had to stop reading after the first two paragraphs.
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