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| Joe Vitus |
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I agree it looks unprofessional, Gromit.
I tell my students not to rely on spell-check (which, apart from words it simply misses, also doesn't connect spelling to meaning and thus won't flag "their" when what is meant is "there" or even "this" when what the writer meant was "these." |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:25 pm |
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| Funny that all three of us spell "spell-check" differently. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:34 pm |
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It's not in the dictionary, what do you expect?  |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:52 pm |
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| Good dialog though. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:34 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Funny that all three of us spell "spell-check" differently.
And all three are correct, too. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:00 am |
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Just a few months ago I saw a typo in a Delta poster on the subway. Yeah, i couldn't believe it either. I kept re-reading it, thinking I had to be misunderstanding it. But it said "We have more flights to European cities then any other airline."
I think it was one European city but I don't remember which. I was too dazed by seeing a typo in an advertising poster. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:07 am |
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My periodic raising of my all time favorite typo, from my senior year high school yearbook, over a picture of the English Department Faculty:
"English Department Raises It's Requirements."
And not one God damned moment too soon. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:08 am |
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That is funny. An ad poster has to have a lot of people looking at it before it is put on public view. They probably had it made in China.
I have had a lot of gizmos and other things made in China where the instructions are in English but completely indecipherable. It's really frustrating. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:14 am |
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| I used to have a book of assorted humour when I was a kid and one section was about typos in publications. One newspaper writing about a crime case identified one of the police as, "...a defective in the police force." They corrected it the next day paper with, "...a detective in the police farce." |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:35 am |
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One of my favorites is a small business in Shanghai named Complet Printing.
Just perfect.
Makes me laugh every time. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:35 am |
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| The penis mightier than the sword. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:10 pm |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 1:38 pm |
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| Don't know what it says about me, but I find that story darkly funny, in a Wile E. Coyote standing-there-charred-black way. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 1:41 pm |
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| It certainly has its humorous side. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 1:42 pm |
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bartist wrote: Don't know what it says about me, but I find that story darkly funny, in a Wile E. Coyote standing-there-charred-black way. |
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