Spotlight - 10.2019

IN THE SPOTLIGHT 10/2019 Spotlight 7

UNITED STATES

Write,

but wrong

MEDIUM US

Can you see what’s wrong with this sen-
tence: “Your’e the only one of you”? Of
course you can. The apostrophe is in the
wrong place. The word should be “You’re”.
But the people who made Taylor Swift’s
merchandise couldn’t see anything
wrong with “Your’e”. Now, the 29-year-
old singer is getting a lot of criticism for
the error. The line is on T-shirts that began
selling in April, and is from Swift’s new
song, “Me!,” which also has the line “Spell-
ing is fun.” One fan wrote on Twitter,
“There’s a typo on the new Taylor Swift
merch! So much for ‘Spelling is fun,’ am I
right?” Spelling may be fun, but punctua-
tion, it seems, is less interesting.

Background: Ai-Da is a humanoid AI ro-

bot artist named after the English math-

ematician and computer pioneer Ada

Lovelace. She uses a camera in her eye,

a robotic arm and a pencil to draw what

she sees.

Famous because: She had her first solo

art exhibition — of 20 paintings, eight

drawings, four sculptures and two videos

— at Oxford University this summer, and

is to have a second exhibition in London.

Her art has already sold for more than £

million.

Quote: Programmed to speak, Ai-Da says,

“I like art because it has such power to

communicate.”

SCOTLAND

Being good to

the planet

EASY

Members of the Martin family of Ab-

erdeen, Scotland, are trying to live a life

that is good for the planet. Parents, Ra-

chel and Ben, and their two children,

Elizabeth, 9, and Daniel, 12, live a low-

carbon lifestyle. They avoid contributing

to emissions from the meat industry and

transport by growing vegetables and be-

ing vegetarian, by walking or cycling most

places, and by going on holiday in the UK.

Rachel, who buys second-hand clothes to

avoid fast fashion, told the BBC, “I think

people think we’re a bit weird, truth be

told.”

The extra­

ordinary

bravery

shown by

hundreds

of thousands

in Hong

Kong ... is

inspiring.

And the

world is

watching.

low-carbon

[)lEU (kA:bEn]

, CO 2 -arm

truth be told

[)tru:T bi (tEUld]

, ehrlich gesagt

weird [wIEd] ifml.

, seltsam

merchandise
[(m§:tSEndaIz]
, Ware; hier: Fanartikel

punctuation

[)pVNktSu(eIS&n]

, Zeichensetzung

typo [(taIpoU]

, Rechtschreibfehler

THE NEWCOMER

Ai-Da EASY

bravery [(breIvEri]

, Mut, Tapferkeit

extradition

[)ekstrE(dɪS&n]

, Auslieferung

AI (artificial

intelligence)

[)eI (aI]

, KI (künstli-

che Intelligenz)

humanoid

[(hju:mEnOId]

, humanoid,

menschen-

ähnlich

robot artist

[(rEUbQt

)A:tIst]

, Roboter-

künstler(in)

— Joe Biden on Twitter. The

Democratic presidential candi-

date was commenting on the mass

protests in Hong Kong against a

proposed extradition law.