Senior Stuff journalist Nicholas Boyack, writing of a major and grossly excessive central Lower Hutt roading project known as the Melling Interchange, told readers that the new construction date “rapidly approaches”.
No Nicholas, it does not; rather it approaches at exactly the same speed as it always has, specifically 60 seconds every minute.
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That is almost as bad as the medias’ use of “at a great rate of knots”. As any person should know “knots” is a rate in itself for it is the rate of going a distance with respect to time, namely 1 knot is about 0.514 m/s. A rate of a rate is acceleration. The units of acceleration are m/s/s.
Taking Nicholas’s reasoning to its logical conclusion, when the project starts to ‘go forward’, then the end construction date will approach even more rapidly.
Another version of the “ attended by tens of thousand nonsense!”so frequently trotted out to infer a purportedly big and unquantified number and in fact journalistic hyperbole
Does Nicolas mean to say the project is making good headway?
Bob is talking matter of factually as it’s true there are 60 seconds in a minute, however psychologically speaking some would say time doesn’t exist.
This is not quite in the same league in terms of abuse but the US President-elect recently opined that “Me and Donald Trump will win the normal gay vote” although nobody ever said you have to be an intellectual giant to graduate from Yale in law.
This is the same Nicholas Boyack who wrote a beatup ‘obituary’ about Helen Eisenhofer, wife of the deceased architect, having allegedly having had an affair with Rob Muldoon – headline and all. Apart from Stuff’s disgraceful headlining of this irrelevancy – who cares if she did and what place does it have in an obituary? – and Boyack’s interchangeable references to New Zealand and Aotearoa it was a masterpiece of distasteful, disgraceful journalism. Still, why should we be surprised?
I doubt they would even know where Melling was!!
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