Don't they have people proofread these things?

[Niminue]

This just showed up in my email, and it pained me so much I have to share it.

From the official campaign for Sen. Herb Kohl (one of my state's - Wisconsin - senators), the title of an email I received inviting me to attend a rally:

Your Invited To Join Senator Herb Kohl

I didn't know I had an "invited", much less that it had joined the senator!

Does anyone else ever get the urge to email people back and correct their grammar/spelling/etc.? I've never actually dared to do it, because it seems a little too rude, but the temptation is always there. Especially in cases like this, where it makes a professional politician - someone whose livelihood is words - makes an obvious and extremely noticable mistake like that.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

Is there any chance that was a spam email designed to look like it was from your senator? I am always getting spams with horrid spelling and grammar, especially those Nigerian ones. How does someone who doesn't even bother with spelling and grammar expect me to trust them with my money? It boggles the mind.  

[Niminue]

Nope, it's the real deal. That's what's mindboggling about it.  

[[Joan De Arc]]

Good God. The Senator needs a dictionary! Or...maybe..he..is stalking you...like that US official did....  

[[ Pyrite ]]

If you didn't e-mail them back about it, I'm sure someone did and they're feeling pretty embarrassed right now.

 

[DarkElf27]

Makes you know which candidates NOT to vote for. wink  

[Aerin-Sol9]

Wow, are you serious? That's pretty scary. burning_eyes  

[[Mammon]]

Maybe, as can be the case, what you actually experienced was an occurrence of subjectus-interruptus ( shhhh, I know it's not real Latin; it's what I like to think of as Looney Tunes Latin) whereby the subject line gets cut off due to size restrictions.

Maybe what the subject line was actually suppose to read was:

Your "Invited To Join Senator Herb Kohl's Star Wars Appreciation Party, I Was" commemorative plates, featuring a tasteful portrait of Yoda, are now available for the reasonable price of $29.99.

Sure they may still have forgotten the opening quotation marks, but those are more for clarity and are not, strictly speaking, grammatically necessary.

So, while we can still ask ourselves whether or not they have people to proofread their P.R. e-mails, wouldn't our time be better spent asking the two more important questions this e-mail raises? Those questions are, of course:

1) How did you get an invitation to join Senator Herb Kohl's Star Wars appreciation party?
2) Just how many commemorative plates do you get for $29.99?


(Just so you know this post is intended to be funny and I am not in any way trying to make light of Niminue's question. Unfortunately, I too am usually a little chicken when it comes to e-mailing people about errors in things they have sent me; but what really scares me about e-mails like this is that the Senator probably does have people to check correspondence for grammatical errors, professional people who do that kind of a thing for a living, and yet they still missed it. That's three year-old in a haunted house scary.)  

[MyOwnBestCritic]

Most Emails with spelling errors are fake; I got one from "PayPal" (which I don't even use, by the way) that had horrendous errors. I reported this to the real PayPal website and caught another online "Phisher."

Sometimes, people are just idiots.  

[Xx_Murderous Doll_xX]

Niminue

...Does anyone else ever get the urge to email people back and correct their grammar/spelling/etc.?...

The sad thing is, I do that a lot. xd I also get many reply emails telling me "This isn't school", etc.  

[Starry Phoenix]

i correct people's spelling all the time! I actualy find it realy fun sometimes. biggrin  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

I'm usually shy about it. However, given the nature of the guild, I'm becoming more proactive (I hate that word).

"Realy" and "actualy" are both spelled with two L's.