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 Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:55 am
Quote: 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.
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:49 pm
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
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:24 pm
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.
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:50 pm
iesl 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.
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:00 pm
Tests typed by English teachers!
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 4:53 am
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.
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