Does spelling really count ?

LOL demand a discount

maybe you are nit picking??

or, maybe the camper trailer company are very clever. After all, when you happen to buy a lemon, they never said they had experts do the quality control etc so does it allow them to stuff you around - tech nit ically speaking that is

The advert was probably written by one of the new generation of school leavers who came through the Qld. edumaction sizetem cos the tuchers caarnt use a red pen tos marks dem est pepers cos litttle Jonbubba might gets upsets.

Did you let the manufacturer know?

It may have been just a 'proof readers oversight' like all the mistakes in the papers.

Kevin J

Hi Footy,
I think you are on the money with this. If the manufacturer's attention to detail is that poor in the first impression, the sales speel what is it going to be like once they have your cash?

As a side note to the younger generation, that gibberish you put in text messages is fine between each other.

Putting it into the application for graduate engineering positions you've submitted to my company and myself isn't. If you haven't got a clue why I haven't responded to your application I'll give you a free hint right here, I haven't got a clue what you are trying to tell me!

All your carefully crafted buzz word bingo and SMS speak is in the bin under my desk.

Geoff

My step daughter is studying to be a teacher and I can't read she work the spelling is so bad and the teachers at uni don't seem to care.I pity our grand children.

Footy

As much as I am a purist for correct spelling and being brought up in the 'old school', I don't think it is really of any concern if spelling becomes an issue in business these days.

The 'general public' would seldom realise that there is a spelling mistake in any promotion as we are bombarded by all the media with endless advertisements for whatever on an hourly basis.

When I have pointed out spelling mistakes to businesses in their advertising the general response could be "So what?" or "Ho Hum"

The world is a place of constant change and we may have to Go with the Flow, so to speak.....LOL

No, I don't think that spelling would alter the quality of the manufactured goods.


Cheers

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Amzanig huh?

Poor spelling is bad enough Footy,

but don't get me on to:

Inappropriate use of an apostrophe,

A split infinitive,

Or, God forbid, a dangling participle.

I hate that!!

cheers

Footy, it would put me off, although i find this error somewhat humorous. I think lack of attention to detail in advertising material could translate to lack of attention to detail in quality control. We do see atrocious errors not picked up by proof readers everywhere these days, and the "spell checkers" generally want to change words to US versions.

When my children were at school, i was well known by the teachers for going through the school newsletters with a yellow highlighter marking all the spelling errors. One primary school teacher, well known for her cold and supercilious manner, once avoided answering the question in my handwritten letter by saying "your mother has made a spelling error - she's written TO instead of TOO". Did i have fun with her blackboard on my next visit to the school - marking all her spelling errors. I had the advantage, as the lesson had been on breeds of farm animals.

One daughter did her first 'school work experience week' at a small school which my younger children attended. When the teacher gave the class a lecture on the importance of correct spelling, she couldn't resist pointing to an error on the board and saying "What if the Teacher makes a spelling error?" "You're just like your Mother" was his laughing response.

This attitude on spelling does not continue on the the forum, where posts are made quickly and are a form of conversation, so i do not expect perfection here and would never criticise others for less than perfect spelling and grammar.

Motherhen

Footy..... I'm 100% with you! Spelling is a basic language function and I can't believe how bad it is getting.

I once went to a café here on the Coast for lunch and studied the chalkboard menu at length. When the girl asked what I wanted, I replied;
"There's 28 spelling mistakes in your menu!"

LOL....

And I can't bring myself to use text-talk in an SMS message either! I understand why people do, I just choose to type my SMS messages properly!


Cheers

Brian

This POST has been Moderated because it contravenes the rule banning Pedantic old farts from pontificating about the benefits of the Education System in place for Baby Boomers.

Next they will be going on about chanting the Times Tables and how young people can't do mental maths.

Boy, I remember when we used to chant our times tables.

Do you notice that young people can't do mental maths??

cheers

Footloose: go straight out and buy it, get cash out of your bank.
if he can't spell he might not be able to count $1000.00, $3000.00, $4000.00 $6000.00 get my drift.
By the time you got to $35.000.00 you could save at least $15.000 for the trip around Aus.

that way it wouldn't matter if the warranty was not covered.
you would save thousands of $$$$$'s

Cheers and happy camping 96

Probably not the best way to inspire confidence. In saying that, my old mechanic couldn't spell to save his life but his mechanical skill and knowhow was second to none!

See how you all go with these 25 words.

25 Most Commonly Misspelled Words

Anyone get 100%......................

Footy,

As a young, studying, Personnel Officer, back in about 84 I advertised for apprenticeships for the company which employed me at the time.

I received some 900 plus applications. Each application ran into many pages.

If I read one spelling mistake in an application it was dropped onto the floor into the pile in my office.

Why? Because with that many to go through, my attitude was: If you can't even bother to submit a properly vetted application, you are not trying hard enough.

As for that gr8 and 2mrw rot? Leaves me cold.

Cheers,

Jim.

Hey Footy

This old Plumber has the Dictionary on the office desk all the time,
I hate to misspell words, even when going to school we had to
spell words in Parrot Fashion over & over, also our Tables ect,
any way I only went to Grade Eight or what they called Scholarship,
then spent Five years at Tech College learning to be a Plumber,
these days all you need is a Hacksaw, Multi Grips, and PVC Glue,
and a Ten Million Dollar Public Risk Insurance Policy, and a Ad in the
Yellow Pages lol lol.


Cheers
Daza

FOOTY

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I think most small businesses don't employ proof-readers and I'm pretty sure most spelling errors occur at the printing house. It should be a printer's business to make sure there are no spelling mistakes.

Take a restaurant for instance; they may advertise as well as get menus printed. By and large you assume that the professional that you are giving the work to will do their job. The printer brings you a sample of the finished product and talks up the eye-catching colour and layout etc. You are thinking about how big the print is for the customers to read, how attractive it looks etc. The amount of restaurants with spelling mistakes in their menus is amazing.

"When I was a young fella"
Hahahahaha....
When you were a young fella Footloose........
When you were a young fella they were still debating if an Abacus was witchcraft,.....IN LATIN
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

Cheers

I agree with your sentiments - makes a company look really unprofessional - and they can't blame spellcheck - their marketing department need a good shake up. A guy I know has just written a handbook for telemarketers - and one of the most prominent items in it is the mispronunciation of words - "aks" "honory" "Febry" etc - same goes for the written word - unfortunately if you say it wrong you can't sound it out correctly.
jules

$35k ... sure it is not $13k ???

Quick google for "This van has been fully pre delivered and checked over by our technitians"

People say that spelling is unimportant in this 'computer age', but it makes it very hard to do an effective search, as is often evident on this site.

I hope whoever buys it has good suspention on their car...... ;-)

Cheers,

Mark

You guys are worse than my ol mum... 77 ears old and a spelling and grammer nazi!

Can't even let her go to Galleria shopping on her own any more without the police bringing her home.........

Disturbing the peace no less - and for what - the center managr put up a sign saying "Homeswest has Moved" etc

According to ol mum it should read "Homeswest have moved" e.g. we has moved has we?... exactly - we have moved!

So - how can the kids learn when adults put up signs with the wrong grammer - so she goes and berates the center manager about his abysmal spelling and grammer etc in a public place....berating him (a grown man no less).... hence the police escort home!

Coulda been worse - the week before she beat some bag snatcher youth half to death with half a house brick inside her handbag then sat on him till security arrived.......and another escorted trip home - now I have to do the shoping for her for goodness sakes, in order to keep the public safe - you see Glenice @ Galleria and she has her red umbrella - fair warning it's every man for himself!

Whatever you do - don't put up any signs that have incorrect spelling or grammer - shes the veritable spelling police and grammer nazi all rolled into one...

77 and about 4 ft 9 or so - she has even the police cowering....they all know her on a first names basis.....ohh and she really has a thing abou graffiti kids so - word to the wise eh - best know whereyour kids are after dark parents....coz I can't protect them if she gets loose on her own!

Spelling and grammer sets her off- but then just about anything does these days - its only since we tok her driving license away shge stoped going to the TV & radio studios to lambaste the news presenters for incorrect grammer!

Heck, I hope I'm half as ornery as her when I'm that age!

Cheers

at least its one word wrong , have you seen kids and there spelling skills ? i had recently seen some posts in a forum for people aged about 16 -18 years .... there was not one word spelt correctly apart from there names and 2 letter words ... It appears to be "cool" to spell everything wrong .. example "wat ya Fink" ( what do you think ?) I am certainly no grammar expert but compared to the new crop of up and coming workers from high school ..... I am a professor at Grammar ... Itz jst fooly sik mhate......

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