I see typos
Are you like me in that you can’t help finding typos, editing and grammar mistakes wherever you go? It’s not something I have any control over. It doesn’t matter if I’m reading a newspaper article or a menu board at a fast food restaurant – it’s like a curse!
Today I was driving down U.S. 60 and at the Val Vista exit I happened to glance over at the monument tower at the Dana Park Village Square. What jumped out at me was that along with signs for Barnes & Noble and A.J.’s, there was a sign for “Z Gallery.” Then seconds later I noticed the sign on the store itself read “Z Gallerie.”
This shouldn’t piss me off, but it does. I have a mind to call the property manager and mention it to them. Do you think the staff at Z Gallerie know about this monumental mistake? Do you think anyone cares? Somebody please put me out of my misery.
Maybe I should join the typo vigilantes.
I see typos
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December 10th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Len- I saw the same thing and rolled my eyes. It just reflects our society today that we don’t just stop and think about what we’re doing. We live on premise of ‘assuming’ things and often just get it wrong. We don’t listen anymore either. No wonder we have so many economic troubles. I would personally like to take on personal campaign to inflict punishment for the wrongful use of the apostrophe. I see it used incorrectly every day. Sigh….
December 10th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
U R Rite,Len.
December 10th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
It IS a curse, LOL. Check out “Barbeques Galore” which on the other side of their building/trucks, etc, says “Barbecues Galore”. I get a nervous twitch every time I drive past one of their stores…
December 11th, 2008 at 9:43 am
I see this sort of thing all the time. I’m glad that I’m not the only person annoyed by it.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:21 am
It’s a sign of the times. People are just not careful anymore. It’s hurry up and get it done.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:25 am
there is a competitor to us whose grammar in advertising is atrocious. everything that ends in s, they think needs an apostrophe. ex. buy two motorcycle’s, get one free.
drives me crazy!
December 11th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Funny the different things that bug us. I guess I could let the “Gallery” vs. “Gallerie” slide, but I run screaming into the night when I see “it’s” used incorrectly as the possessive. The other one that kills me is “Your welcome” for “You’re welcome.” I don’t think we can inflict punishment, however, unless and until all of the ValleyPR blog posts are consistently error-free!
December 11th, 2008 at 11:42 am
It’s their tenant’s BRAND,so you’d think the property managers would be more careful. Aside from being annoying for us detail-oriented folks, the real tragedy of this particular typo is the potential message to the customer: “We don’t care enough to know your name or to take the time to double- and triple-check that we’re representing you accurately.” At least it reminds us to take pride in being the custodians of our clients’ brands and our ability to treat them with respect and care.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I think there’s a big difference, my good friend Linda, between blog-ography — where the intent is to get ideas out reasonably spontaneously — and printed or created signage — where some notion of permanence is the goal.
For those inveterate apostrophiles, you may be amused to visit a website devoted to apostrophe errors which includes such gems as “dirty dish’s”, a “Girl’s Rock” t-shirt, “The Kid’s Studio” (private kindergarten) and my personal favorite, “Overstock Panty Hoe’s.”
http://www.apostropheabuse.com
December 12th, 2008 at 10:32 am
My bachelor’s degree is in English, so I get what everyone is saying. For me, Tracy’s post hits it right on. Such errors say that a business just might not care.
I do think there comes a time where if you’ve communicated your point and people understand it, so what if there is an error. It’s a fine line and always good to know the proper way.
December 12th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I dont no what the big deel is Len?
December 12th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Thanks Len. You screwed up my drive down the 60 today. Another vexing peccadillo to bum out my grammar karma.
But seriously maybe the property manager has a french affectation quota that has been filled by Anthropologie in Dana Park?
December 12th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
“Public place” mistakes make me nuts, but I have to say that my biggest typo/grammar pet peeve has to do with teachers who send home paperwork or emails with obvious errors. Just today, I received an email from my son’s AP History teacher (he’s a junior in high school) that said “accept” for “except”; “…get their scrapbooks completed which is due Monday…”; and more. If it was an isolated incident, I’d chalk it up to we all goof up now and then, but this teacher, in particular, is atrocious at spelling and grammar.One time she spelled “spelling” as “speeling” on the grading rubrik that was judging the, you guessed it, SPELLING content of an assignment! Of course, it doesn’t quite rate with the time my daughter’s third grade teacher (many moons ago, she’s now at UA…) insisted that a country was in an incorrect hemisphere. But I digress…
December 12th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
BTW, speaking of public place typos. I love this site – the Blog of the Unnecessary Quotation Marks
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/
December 12th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Ouch – sorry, I don’t know how to edit the posts here, but I will take that in the constructive spirit in which I’m sure it was intended
December 14th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Wow – typos always seem to start a volatile chain of comments! Yikes!
Hi, Jim – as far as typos in blogs go, I think that blogs that are in the PR/communications field need to pay a little more attention to typos because the authors are in the field of communications. If you’re blogging about aerospace issues, truck driving, or cooking, you get a free pass.