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Monday, 28 April 2008

The Impotence of Proofreading

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjhOBiSk8Gg

A poem by Taylor Mali.

Labels: poetry, proofreading, spellchecker, spelling, video, YouTube

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Tuesday, 4 March 2008

If you're having grammar problems I feel bad for you, son

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Only 17 typos, originally uploaded by Dunstan Orchard.

This is slapdashery beyond anything I have seen before. There are no unnecessary apostrophes at least.

17 typos and an apostrophe ain't one. Watch out Jay-Z; MC Grammar is all up in your flow.

Can you spot all seventeen errors? Answers available by clicking through to the photo page.

Friday, 24 August 2007

Spell Checker Poem

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Via Digg I found a funny poem by a guy called Dean Hunt about the dangers of relying too much on one's spell checker.

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it’s weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

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