Posted by: David Breakey
on March 05, 2004 12:57 AM
Sigh.
Consider, for a moment, the fact that I recently heard a televised ad, from a major furniture company in this area, that clearly indicated that it was selling "bedroom suits." And no, I'm not joking. The announcer clearly said "suits" not "suites." I could understand maybe misspelling it, but these two words are clearly pronounced differently. So much for proofing the ad before broadcasting…
I have seen increasing incidents of misspellings, severe errors in grammer and, now, mispronounciation that this does not surprise me in the least. Even in professional publications like Time.
Remember, this is supposed to be an internal e-mail, not something intended for public consumption. Whoever wrote it was probably in a hurry and didn't really care about the misspellings that the spell-checker may have been flagging (assuming it was even on).
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Re:This has to be a hoax
Posted by: David Breakey on March 05, 2004 12:57 AMSigh.
Consider, for a moment, the fact that I recently heard a televised ad, from a major furniture company in this area, that clearly indicated that it was selling "bedroom suits." And no, I'm not joking. The announcer clearly said "suits" not "suites." I could understand maybe misspelling it, but these two words are clearly pronounced differently. So much for proofing the ad before broadcasting…
I have seen increasing incidents of misspellings, severe errors in grammer and, now, mispronounciation that this does not surprise me in the least. Even in professional publications like Time.
Remember, this is supposed to be an internal e-mail, not something intended for public consumption. Whoever wrote it was probably in a hurry and didn't really care about the misspellings that the spell-checker may have been flagging (assuming it was even on).
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