| Date: | September 14, 2005 / year-entry #265 |
| Tags: | other |
| Orig Link: | https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050914-13/?p=34183 |
| Comments: | 10 |
| Summary: | You can find the following typographical errors in the Big Room at the PDC: Intergrated Precison Personel If you can locate all three of them and catch me at the PDC (say at the Fundamentals Lounge or at the Ask the Experts table), I'll award you a prize of um (rummaging through my bag) how... |
You can find the following typographical errors in the Big Room at the PDC:
If you can locate all three of them and catch me at the PDC (say at the Fundamentals Lounge or at the Ask the Experts table), I'll award you a prize of um (rummaging through my bag) how about a retractable network cable? (Or an autographed business card? But then again, anybody can get one of those just by asking for one.) |
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At the Penny Arcade Expo, I was vastly amused that they managed to misspell "Freeplay".
Twice. On the same page. Two different ways.
In a header that was duplicated three times.
Doesn’t anyone hire proofreaders anymore?
>> (Or an autographed business card? But then again, anybody can get one of those just by asking for one.) <<
AS I tell people, I’m not cool because I have Charles Petzold’s business card in my wallet — I’m cool because he has mine in his. (*)
(*) Full disclosure — It was about 13 years ago that I gave him my card, and about a year later that he demostrated that he still had it in his wallet (It’s a cool looking bussiness card), so he probably isn’t still carrying it around……
Poofreaders aren’t all they’re cacked up to be.
Umm… I thought "personel" was just fine… but that is understandable because 1) I’m not a native English speaker and 2) it looks almost as “personal”, the Spanish word for the same thing.
Typographical errors or mere spelling errors?
Can I have an autographed business card? :-)
Loz: The first two are probably typographical; the third could be either a typo or a spelling error.
slapout: All you have to do is stop by the Fundamentals Lounge or the Ask the Experts table.
Raymond’s slide are here:
http://commnet1.microsoftpdc.com/content/downloads.aspx
or more specifically:
http://216.55.183.63/pdc2005/slides/FUN412_Chen.ppt
If you want to see horrendous spelling errors visit a typical English city/village with large signs for tourists or metal plates with historical data. Errors galore e.g.
* at pub near Lincoln Cathedral: "Family’s welcome"
* signboard outside St John’s college Oxford requests "no radio’s"