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This banner ad caught my eye.

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On the left it’s with Mike “Strom”, while on the right it’s with Mike “Storm”. Does anyone proofread anymore?
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We do a lot of proofreading over here: https://community.spiceworks.com/user-groups/spiceworks-bureau-of-grammar-and-punctuation

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I had to find out which is correct. Storm

I like this graphic.

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Normally, I don’t care that much about other people’s spelling. But, I don’t think it’s being pedantic to expect an ad for a Fortune 100 company to have undergone a little proofreading.

Edit: Corrected a punctuation mistake. :smiley:

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Oh… I absolutely requested to Join… Finally a group I can get behind! Also…

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“Does anyone proofread anymore?”

Apparently not.

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Unfortunately, that’s a thing of the past.

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  • What’s proofreading?
  • What’s an editorial office (in a publication process or a publishing / media house)?
    I’m currently looking for a new job. Books and guides on job search report that applicants should take much care also in their application papers as a proof of proficiency as do the employers in their job advertisements. But when I look at job advertisements, I see that those publishing do not always understand the terms they use nor apply recommendations of software auto-correction assistants in their documents. And yes, the quality of software auto-correction assistants has a wide variation. E.g. those in my web browser seem not the best. But when working with office documents, I usually have to activate a few clicks to strengthen their configuration and get much better results. When I was younger, I didn’t need such assistance. But as I became older, these are convenient, for my native language as well as for other languages.
    (I know proofreading. I know of editorial offices although I never worked for one.)
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I was recently hauled into court to face a fraudulent DCS claim. I know that sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but it isn’t. Among the complaints, the report included a half truth about one of my children being in public school and then taken out to be homeschooled. All of my children are homeschooled. The one who was in public school was there ever so briefly before Covid sent a bunch of kids home so we just kept him at home.

What caught my eye were the numerous misspellings and grammatical errors not only in the case worker’s report but in the summons itself. Some were so bad, if I were the judge I would have thrown the case out simply because it made no sense the way it was written. I told my lawyer that perhaps the DCS worker and her lawyer might have benefitted from a homeschool education. My mother was extremely strict about these things. Now, my grammar and spelling are arguably not stellar, but they are miles beyond what was in this official, public record.

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Beware they’re watching…always watching

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The pride of producing a quality product is dead, beaten to death by 100,000,000 monkeys banging on keyboards.

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This has been a fun thread. Makes me wish it was Friday though.

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I got lunch from Wendys the other day, on the drink cup it said: ‘Wendys rewards is here’

So I think the answer is no.

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My uncle was a proofreader for the Dallas Morning News, a newspaper in Dallas for many years until he was let go with all of the other proofreaders because computers would be able to proofread everything faster and better than they could. The first paper that came out that was entirely computer proofread, my uncle browsed through it and then called his former boss and started questioning all of the errors. I can’t stand reading the newspaper and many magazines anymore because they are usually riddled with grammar and spelling mistakes. I know my spelling and grammar are not the best, but it is better than what passes now.

When I was in school, learning spelling and grammar, every assignment was always handwritten, on stone tablets, and if you ever made a mistake, you were smacked in the back of the head with the unabridged dictionary because you failed to use it. It didn’t matter what class, even if you were in Math class and you used bad grammar while speaking to another student. One or two whacks, and you never forgot to get that thing out again.

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@adam-h Me reading this on a Friday. Your wish has come true for me.

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At the age of 9 (many moons ago!) I was in the backseat of our car and my parents had stopped for gas. There was some big banner up at the gas station and I don’t remember anything else it said, but it had the word “recieve” in big red letters. I remember to this day the shock I experienced at seeing that. I would never have been permitted to get away with such sloppiness in the most informal of school assignments. What did I get in trouble for? I was so worried I would forget how to spell “Fahrenheit” for an exam that I wrote it in pencil on the desk. (Of course, I got caught and justly punished for cheating.)

My own typing is far from perfect, but I agree that there has been a decline in quality standards in recent years. Find any book published before 1980 and note the incredible scarcity of typos. I recently finished a 1500-page 2-volume work published in the 60s and counted maybe 10 or 11 typos in the entire work, none of them all that egregious. And to this day, I still type out the word “you” in every text message and email I send.

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I guess either they don’t care, it’s an inside joke, or they’re testing to see who is paying attention, because they appear to be running new versions with the same issue:

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