speling erirz
Sep. 29th, 2009 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swingchickiei have a rant: people whose job it is to write things seen by the public (articles, website content, etc) but who have ridiculous spelling or grammar. blogging is one thing, because most of those folks are on their own. but when you're writing for a news outlet or something, i would hope you'd have a basic understanding of english.
case in point: i follow our local NBC station on facebook because i'm a dork that way. this morning they posted a weekly feature where one of the morning anchors has lunch at a local restaurant and raves about it and helps make some of the food. this particular post was about a french restaurant, and whoever posted it wrote "see Aditi make their famous keesh". KEESH? i almost spit out my coffee. of course as soon as i LOLed in a comment, they took it down and fixed it. but goodness gracious.
this isn't just one instance... almost daily i see major errors in online content, and it's not a slip of the keys, it's full-on not knowing how to spell a word. isn't there an editor looking over anyone's shoulder?
case in point: i follow our local NBC station on facebook because i'm a dork that way. this morning they posted a weekly feature where one of the morning anchors has lunch at a local restaurant and raves about it and helps make some of the food. this particular post was about a french restaurant, and whoever posted it wrote "see Aditi make their famous keesh". KEESH? i almost spit out my coffee. of course as soon as i LOLed in a comment, they took it down and fixed it. but goodness gracious.
this isn't just one instance... almost daily i see major errors in online content, and it's not a slip of the keys, it's full-on not knowing how to spell a word. isn't there an editor looking over anyone's shoulder?
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Date: 2009-09-29 03:58 pm (UTC)It's been years since I could get a paying copyediting gig.
true, dat
Date: 2009-09-29 04:49 pm (UTC)despite the comment above
Date: 2009-09-29 04:50 pm (UTC)Oy.
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Date: 2009-09-29 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-29 05:30 pm (UTC)"Last week you guys published 1.4 million new blog posts, but you only ran the spell checker about 204 thousand times. Ahem."
So even when spell checkers are available...
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Date: 2009-09-29 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-29 10:30 pm (UTC)