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The Stakes Aren’t Quite So High When I Make a Speeling Error

Thursday, 4 February 2016, 23:59 BFH Uncategorized 32

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Well, mission accomplished.

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They deleted their video and are presumably starting over.

If you guys at Courageous Conservatives are reading this – send us the new video and we’ll be glad to run it! I feel your pain!!!!

(I actually have nightmares where I’m spelling everything wrong no matter how many times I try to fix it.)

((I once did a job that cost $16,000 for a client to print. At the meeting they found a spelling error in the copy. All eyes went on me and the CEO was furious. Luckily I kept my notes and it turned out the art director made the error. It was an acronym, and they had it wrong in the notes they gave me. I still got fired.))

 

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32 Comments on The Stakes Aren’t Quite So High When I Make a Speeling Error

  3. I knew you’d come around Brad – at least ya found something to like about him LOL. At least the spelling mistake was somewhat covered up by the bad word placement. I had to put my glasses on to see the misspelling because of the white text blending in with his white shirt.

  4. As the educational system is dumbed down, we’ll see more of this. DH and I were in line at Target to return something. The clerk didn’t know how to spell “adjusted.” She turned to another clerk to ask – who is a college graduate, and he had no clue. DH and I spelled it for her, and told the college grad to ask for a refund on his college bill. His come back was “I was never a good speller.” So, this is what we’re dealing with, illiteracy.

  5. Bubba, I’ve always enjoyed your comments here and want to alpogize for going off the other night. I know we after the same results, we just see two different paths. Sorry.

  6. Thanks. I’m glad you see it that way. We both want what’s best for America when it’s all said and done, so no hard feelings from me. Now if we can get one of them to recognize the 2nd Amendment as all the “license” that’s needed for CCW, we might be on the way to getting the Constitution back in effect.

  8. I never went to college and barely made it thru high school. But. I’m very good looking so the ladies have told me since I was young.
    So I married a very very rich doctor.
    She makes close to $350,000 a year.
    I make $51,000 a year and drive a $70,000 car.
    Live in an upscale neighborhood.
    I barely can spell but it just doesn’t seem to matter.

  15. Years ago I was handling the national publicity for Evening at Pops on PBS. There was only a little over a month between filming and getting the press kits in the mall to all the stations.

    Five thousand kits arrived and the graphics designer ran down to my office, ripped the shrink wrap off and said, with apparent confusion, “Made possible by a grunt from Martin Marietta Corporation.”

    I went ashen and light-headed. He was teasing.
    ….Lady in Red

  16. Proper spelling and good grammar may not be money in your pocket, always, but they are classy, a sign of discernment, attention to details that some consider important.
    …..Lady in Red

  18. Once upon a time when I was a kid, I used to catch all the spelling errors in my local New York newspaper. You could always catch a couple on each page.
    Now, they’re everywhere – in ads, magazines, websites, and in a place you’d never, EVER see them in the past: TV.
    Since there was so much money riding on everything on TV you had dozens of people going over every last detail in countless meetings and NEVER saw a spelling error on the air.
    Now, the dozens of people are imbeciles and the on-air spelling errors are everywhere, too. And, this is WITH the aid of spell-checking computers at their disposal.

  20. I used to be a proof reader. Do people not use them anymore?
    By the way you can not proof read your own copy. Your brain
    won’t catch the error. Most of the time.

  22. Yesterday on FB a woman posted a photo of her hair after a salon visit with a one word comment, “Walla”.

    Of course she should have typed, “Voila”, but was clueless.

  23. I remember once, while writing a regulation, a reference to protecting “the general public” had one letter missing, making an embarrassing anatomical reference. I added a self correction so that the anatomical reference would automatically self correct to “public” since we were dealing with transportation, not anatomy.

  25. One lesson my kids took to that I strived to instill in them: Master the language and you can do anything.

    They actually listened to that one. They can actually spell words correctly, as well.

    One has an M. Ed, counsels inner city kids, and is setting up her own youth counseling biz. The other is an RVT and runs her own successful etail business.

    I be a prowd papa.

  29. My dear Fur: The same thing happened to me as a senior copywriter. I misspelled a client’s name on a TV ad (seen during the presentation to the client . . . before it actually ran, thank God!); I didn’t get fired because I got a big advertising award the week before and the president of the agency though it would look bad for the company. The next day one of my colleges gave me a list that I’ve kept for years: Wordsmiths Who Couldn’t Spell.

    1. ALFRED MOSHER BUTTS: invented Scrabble
    2. WILLIAM FAULKNER: One of Faulkner’s editors said, “I know that he did not wish to have carried through from typescript to printed book his typing mistakes, misspellings, faulty punctuation and accidental repetition. He depended on me, to point out such errors and correct them.”
    3. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
    4. ERNEST HEMINGWAY: Whenever his editors complained about his spelling, he’d retort, “Well, that’s what you’re hired to correct!”
    5. JOHN KEATS: In a letter to his great love Fanny Brawne, Keats spelled the color purple, purplue. This generated a longer conversation between the two, as Keats tried to save face by suggesting he’d meant to coin a new portmanteaux – a cross between purple and blue.
    6. JANE AUSTEN: She misspelled one of her works as “Love and Freindship” and is known to have spelt scissors as scissars.

    We’re in good company!

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