And a bit of an "Oops!" moment, me thinks: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-62590619

Anyone manage to get a copy at that price?

Cheers

Geoff

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On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:25:03 +0100, Geoff May <GeoffMay_do_not_spam_me@nospam.com> wrote:

And a bit of an "Oops!" moment, me thinks: >https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-62590619

(for those to lazy to click, the story headline reads:
"Electronic Arts (EA) has admitted to scoring "a pretty spectacular
own goal" after mistakenly pricing its Fifa 23 Ultimate Edition on
India's Epic Games store at 4.80 rupees ($0.06; £0.05)."

Buyers rushed to pre-order the game last month after a decimal point
error saw its price discounted online by 99.98%."

Anyone manage to get a copy at that price?

Nope. But it would have required that a) I was interested in sports
games, b) I ever checked Epic for anything but free games, and c) I
was interested in EA's microtransaction-riddled FIFA series (there's a
reason EA can afford to give the game away at the price. They could
even do it on purpose and not lose money).

Also - and I can't believe I'm spellchecking the BBC - but it's FIFA,
not Fifa (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). I'd
accept that sort of mistake from an American news agency , but you'd
think bbc.co.uk would know better.

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On 19/08/2022 00:09, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Also - and I can't believe I'm spellchecking the BBC - but it's FIFA,
not Fifa (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). I'd
accept that sort of mistake from an American news agency , but you'd
think bbc.co.uk would know better.

If only life was that simple but as this is the English language it's a
bit more complicated than that. In the UK, in the more serious news
outlets at least, you will generally see acronyms* of the form uppercase followed by lower case whereas an initialism is all uppercase. The are
of course exception as the first rule of the English language is this is
the rule except when it's not.

So from the BBC's style guide.

"acronyms

Where you would normally pronounce the abbreviation as a string of
letters - an initialism - use all capitals with no full stops or spaces
(eg FA, UNHCR, NUT). However, our style is to use lower case with an
initial cap for acronyms where you would normally pronounce the set of
letters as a word (eg Sars, Mers, Aids, Nafta, Nasa, Opec, Apec)."

*That's acronym in its traditional meaning of an initialism that is
pronounced as a word. Not what seems to have entered common usage where
acronym and initialism are interchangeable.

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On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 12:50:33 AM UTC-7, JAB wrote:

On 19/08/2022 00:09, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Also - and I can't believe I'm spellchecking the BBC - but it's FIFA,
not Fifa (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). I'd
accept that sort of mistake from an American news agency , but you'd
think bbc.co.uk would know better.

If only life was that simple but as this is the English language it's a
bit more complicated than that. In the UK, in the more serious news
outlets at least, you will generally see acronyms* of the form uppercase followed by lower case whereas an initialism is all uppercase. The are
of course exception as the first rule of the English language is this is
the rule except when it's not.

So from the BBC's style guide.

"acronyms

Where you would normally pronounce the abbreviation as a string of
letters - an initialism - use all capitals with no full stops or spaces
(eg FA, UNHCR, NUT). However, our style is to use lower case with an
initial cap for acronyms where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word (eg Sars, Mers, Aids, Nafta, Nasa, Opec, Apec)."

*That's acronym in its traditional meaning of an initialism that is pronounced as a word. Not what seems to have entered common usage where acronym and initialism are interchangeable.

TIL (No one pronounces that Til* yet right?)

* For those of you not up on the hip new acronyms, that's Today I Learned.

- Justisaur

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It was $10 at BestBuy yesterday or the day before in one of their sales.

rms

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On 19/08/2022 15:09, Justisaur wrote:

On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 12:50:33 AM UTC-7, JAB wrote:

On 19/08/2022 00:09, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Also - and I can't believe I'm spellchecking the BBC - but it's FIFA,
not Fifa (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). I'd
accept that sort of mistake from an American news agency , but you'd
think bbc.co.uk would know better.

If only life was that simple but as this is the English language it's a
bit more complicated than that. In the UK, in the more serious news
outlets at least, you will generally see acronyms* of the form uppercase
followed by lower case whereas an initialism is all uppercase. The are
of course exception as the first rule of the English language is this is
the rule except when it's not.

So from the BBC's style guide.

"acronyms

Where you would normally pronounce the abbreviation as a string of
letters - an initialism - use all capitals with no full stops or spaces
(eg FA, UNHCR, NUT). However, our style is to use lower case with an
initial cap for acronyms where you would normally pronounce the set of
letters as a word (eg Sars, Mers, Aids, Nafta, Nasa, Opec, Apec)."

*That's acronym in its traditional meaning of an initialism that is
pronounced as a word. Not what seems to have entered common usage where
acronym and initialism are interchangeable.

TIL (No one pronounces that Til* yet right?)

* For those of you not up on the hip new acronyms, that's Today I Learned.

To be fair it was only when Spalls mentioned it that I got my googlefoo
out. I presume I'm just so used to either form that I don't even notice
which one is being used.

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