As seen on TV

If you don't understand Afrikaans then this post will mean nothing to you. If you do understand then you will know what the difference is between "toerleier" en "toerlyer". On a program on Kyknet, one of South Africa's Afrikaans channels there is a program called "Op die rug van 'n ysterperd" (On the back of a motorcycle"). It's a program about a couple of guys who rode from South Africa to Tanzania on their motor bikes. At the end of the program they show the credits and instead of "tour leader", they misspelled it and wrote (when translated directly) "tour sufferer". The words are pronounced exactly the same, but has a completely different meaning when spelled incorrectly. I hope at least that the tour leader had some fun as well and wasn't suffering all the time......

As seen on TV

I was watching a program on National Geographic last night called Dangerous Encounters. I wonder who the jerk was that made this mistake and never thought of correcting it. I guess we all make spelling mistakes (in my case mostly typing mistakes), but on an International TV channel like National Geographic...? These are mistakes more commonly seen on SABC 1, 2 and 3.