What is Encyclocentral?

[durham_rambler]

Encyclocental describes itself this: This official website provides original, informative & authoritative reviews & articles; much like wikipedia but not in a wiki story format. Its url is www.encyclocentral.com but I am not going to boost their Google rating with a link for reasons that will become apparent.

The articles I have seen read as if they have been translated by machine from a foreign language.

For example, this:
A-90 is a major highway, connecting Edinburgh and Fraserburgh in Scotland. It is a popular road among the major connectors of the world. It finally merges into M-90 motorway before covering the Fourth Road Bridge in the west. The M-90 once again becomes A-90 at Perth. On its way it covers Dundee, Forfar, Brechin, Stonehaven, Aberdeen and Peterhead

Leaving aside that the roads are the A90 and M90 (no hyphens) what does it mean covering the Fourth Road Bridge? We would say crossing the Forth Road Bridge. Note the spelling: there are no First, Second or Third road bridges. The bridge is across the Firth of Forth.

Other articles are even worse. The one on Anne Fine, for example, says Anne Fine is a British author who is best known for writing book’s for the children readers, middle-aged readers, old aged persons as well as adult readers. Quite apart from that misplaced apostrophe, you would never guess from reading this that she writes books for younger, middle and older children as well as adults, would you?

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

You did a mood!

Thank you

[encyclocentral.livejournal.com]

Hey Durham:

Thanks (is that correct English???) for all the positive comments about my site.

Nice livejournal cookie cutter you got here.

:)