Heaf to Head.
They say those who live in glass houses should not throw stones but this morning happens to find me outside my little see through cottage, arm cocked, stone in palm ready to zing. Ill-advised? Likely though, well, what the heck. I have been inundated over the past two World Surf League events with emails, text messages, DMs showcasing typos, spelling and grammar errors, names botched etc. on WSL propaganda. Everything from the most basic accident to complex absurdist messes.
Oh you know that here at BeachGrit abusing the English language is a way of life but why does the Santa Monica-based home of professional surfing have such open disdain for our tongue?
WSL CEO Erik Logan recently declared in a stirring interview that growth across all platforms was through the roof and a new Chief Financial Officer was just poached away from the mighty NBA in order to put those coins in the right purses but clearly the League’s copy editing offices have been throttled.
Is it on purpose?
The potential goal being to transition to Portuguese as official language partner?
Why Papa Barton has been unceremoniously lynched?
I have to say, I wouldn’t be so mad. As an applied linguist, my love of language knows no bounds but as an American I have never been forced to become competent in any. I have a elementary grasp of Spanish, can get around in Arabic and have done work on Russian grammar, can read the Cyrillic alphabet, but no mastery.
Might I become fluent in Portuguese with enough heats under the belt?
Might you?
Muito legal.
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I’m a broke surfer in another country. With mad proofreading skills. They should run their bullshit by me and pay me a few bucks to straighten it out. That’s rad that dude is mucking around in different languages. I learned Spanish as an adult. It’s doable. I probably knew 5 words in the year 2000. Fluent now. (The real test is medical conversations and dealing with members of a bureaucracy.)
Chas you cunning linguist you !
Can I please have your orthograph ?
their hand written type is not hand written. its a font.
exact same letters etc. fake handwriting. kinda says it all.
If you can read Cyrillic you can read Greek. They are almost identical (the letters, not the language), and the few letters that are different you can guess pretty quickly.
Beachgrit really should pivot to Portuguese much like the wozz is. It really is the future language for surf related matters. I’m thinking I should comment exclusively in Portuguese to try and build my ‘brand’ and maybe I can have dinner with Neymar, Gabby and that maniac Bolsanaro, aka “Trump of the Tropics” one day.
Peoples champs
They do really care about others.
P- Eles realmente se importam com os outros
E verdade.
My native tongue is cunnilingus.
One spelling mistake. God I would hate to be your child Chas. Imagine living life under the dictatorship of the CHAS. North Korea has nothing on Southern Californai. Please note the spelling mistake.
dad wanted the accordian, mom wanted ballet…girls wanted to surf. let ’em play. i’n in Niece, France!
Hope the summer is treating you well in the land of France.
Russian and Arabic?
CIA?
You wouldn’t be the first one that they had promote the North Shore or surfing.
Or go to Yemen as a “writer”.
Is this a Tavistock creation? The WSL is
pending…
World Spastic League
also pending…
Tidak Bagoooooos
Almost
Bike terry mccarthy
It’s Terry MacKenzie mate.
Ahhhhhhh I think I know my bahaza mate
Clearly
tear in my car seat
need a bongo player…you’re up!
Word Slur Leag
Ha!
“Things that are classy
if you’re rich but trashy if you’re poorfor a thousand”…..What is speaking more than one language Alex?let me chew on that…while i make popcorn!
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this post by the oz admin chick just knocked head to heaf off the number 1 spot….
‘Climate change causes rape’…
https://twitter.com/i/statu…
i’d guess this would also exaceberate climate change?
https://www.instagram.com/t…
“I have a elementary grasp of Spanish, can get around in Arabic and have done work on Russian grammar, can read the Cyrillic alphabet, but no mastery.”
You know no limits Charles. Lets start with AN elementary grasp of your native tongue, especially grammar, before jumping into any other worthless languages.
Ha! Got em
Shukran!
Cybilic alphabet, too. Surf speak.
Plus the headline should be Grammatical errors not Grammar errors. The applied linguist isn’t too good at linguistics.
Griff is moonlighting!
The highlight video of “Woman on Woman in Open Heat” was a real let down. False advertisement
watched the portuguese version of the Rio and really got some laughs as the english translation chyrons produce a superb word soup. for example:
esta é a bateria mais emocionante do dia…que pena que Barton Lynch não está na cabine e Strider não está na água
in other words:
this is the most exciting heat of the day…too bad Barton Lynch kicked the pooch and Strider is taking a number two in the water.
Vintage Chas Smith ! They must have made a trans bot.