What's worse?

[MyMyMyGirl]

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Some examples of technology are playstation's, mobile phone's, microwave's, tv's.

What the bloody hell?

In my Grammar book I found "Barrmitzvah" instead of Bar Mitzvah.

I think typos are really bad when they're in school books or reading books. It just makes the author look like they don't have any clue on what they're doing.  

[KuraiKitty]

Honestly, it's a nightmare when a school text is plagued with grammar errors. I constantly have to overlook misspellings in my technology texts (For instance, theirs =/= there's!), and it's horrendous to have to deal with professors that can't spell.

This is especially pathetic when they're using Powerpoint presentations from more than two semesters ago. What excuse can a professor really give, at that point?

"Sorry, never got around to fixing the typo that's printed in size 48 font."

Really? Then please don't b***h to us about how you think all college kids these days are lazy assholes, please. rolleyes  

[Cthulhu Eating Ye]

It annoys me greatly when I find grammatical errors or typos within schoolwork or books. However, finding errors in posts of fellow grammar devotees is worse than finding them in books. Hypocrisy is the ultimate evil.  

[toachung]

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I would have voted for the book, but since subtitles for movies was an option, I voted for that.
I'm assuming the published book is at least two hundred pages with a small font. In this instance, it is acceptable, as long as the mistakes are moderate. And, hopefully, they are mistakes. I would give the author and the editor the assumption that they overlooked it, and do not believe the typo is proper. But subtitles in a movie? A movie is not as long as a book. With so many people working on its production, I judge these typos harshly.

I agree about the subtitles. Sometimes, fan subtitles just make me want to force-choke people sometimes.  

[angelswolf121]

Tests typed by English teachers!  

[Melantha007]

One of my older books (from about 1950's) has the word "clew" in place of the word "clue." [A clew is a thread, as of yarn or cotton. Theseus was given a clew by Ariadne to get into and out of the Labyrinth.] I've also seen books from this decade with dropped letters and homonym/synonym mistakes. It gets very annoying to be reading a book by a favorite author and suddenly come across a typographical error.