Atrocious spelling in OKC

[TheTravellers]

Wanted to start a new thread since my comment was way off on a tangent in the other thread...

Saw this on the door of the former Midtown Deli yesterday when we went to eat lunch at 1492.

Argh, SPELLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why can't people just run a 3-word sign by somebody else and ask "Does this look right?" I see *so* many spelling and grammar errors on menus, signs, business cards, notices, etc. here in OKC it's just really, really sad and does not reflect well on OKC. La Baguette Colcord spells soup soupe, tartare as Tar Tar, and then I just stopped noting the errors. I pointed out that City Bites had a big banner promoting "Pumkin Bread" and they just said "Wow, never noticed that before, that's hilarious". Illiteracy is funny now, how pathetic. I'm tempted to start being one of those guys that carries white-out, paintbrushes, etc. in an attempt to fix this crap...

[soonerguru]

Louie's sucks.

[Bunty]

Louie's sucks.

WHY? Are there sandwiches worse than Subway?

[BG918]

WHY? Are there sandwiches worse than Subway?

Please tell me you did this on purpose.

[earlywinegareth]

Hardly just OKC...it's a nationwide epidemic. But if it bothers you so much, I'd suggest taking Paxil to sooth your nerves and stop making mountains outta molehills?

[Architect2010]

This is dramatic honestly. Just sayin'.

[TheTravellers]

This is dramatic honestly. Just sayin'.

So y'all (*that's* the proper spelling, not ya'll, since it's a contraction of you and all ) just blithely ignore or don't care that the menus of a fancy restaurant in the middle of downtown that hosts business travellers from all over misspells tons of stuff on its menu, therefore possibly giving the impression that we're semi-literate? I believe that the little things like that add up eventually... I could be completely wrong and that most people don't give a rat's a** how things are spelled and just echo some of the sentiments on here of "Whatever, happens all over, BFD", though.

[Architect2010]

So y'all (*that's* the proper spelling, not ya'll, since it's a contraction of you and all ) just blithely ignore or don't care that the menus of a fancy restaurant in the middle of downtown that hosts business travellers from all over misspells tons of stuff on its menu, therefore possibly giving the impression that we're semi-literate? I believe that the little things like that add up eventually... I could be completely wrong and that most people don't give a rat's a** how things are spelled and just echo some of the sentiments on here of "Whatever, happens all over, BFD", though.

No, I think you're being dramatic. I'm pretty sure that's all I said. So a few words around the city aren't spelled correctly, or you assume they aren't; how does that make Oklahoma City seem illiterate or semi-literate? That's just a huge generalization based off a few examples, and they weren't even blaringly obvious either.

And the whole generational crap is a bunch of garbage as well. Some of you are so full of yourselves. I just find it so funny because this board is knowingly comprised of people from all different ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, etc. Yet, some of you like to blow smoke out your mouth and expect everyone to believe it. As a Millennial, I get deeply offended when archaic, backwards generations like to chime in and criticize myself and my peers. Technology has never inhibited my ability to learn the difference between 'two' and 'too'. Diagram a sentence? My professor made us do that on the first day of class to make sure she had no one that might need to be sent to remedial classes. Needless to say, we ALL knew how to do it. Oh and when I text, I do it with proper punctuation, grammar, etc. I can back all of this up with my Composite ACT Score of 30, thank you very much.

I must add though that I hate diagraming sentences and I think it's an antiqued and outdated way to teach such a modern civilization. I say this because teaching and educational methods used today need to be completely reformed. We've been teaching our children the same exact way for a century. It needs to change, and that is more to blame for the brain-drain than anything.

[semisimple]

I can back all of this up with my Composite ACT Score of 30, thank you very much.

My ACT score > yours.

[OKCisOK4me]

My ACT score > yours.

My ACT score was less than both of you guys. I think 23 or 24 was my high (bare minimum to get accepted to college), yet here I am with the big boys spelling my words like the day I learned them. What's your point? lol

[kevinpate]

Mid, maybe it's owned Mia Corner?
8^)

[betts]

Good spellers are probably born, not made. I'm firmly convinced that spelling has nothing to do with intelligence and is an innate ability, like being a good artist. However, most poor spellers know who they are and should not volunteer to be in charge of signage.

[ou48A]

Good spellers are probably born, not made. I'm firmly convinced that spelling has nothing to do with intelligence and is an innate ability, like being a good artist.

I believe this to be very true.
I have known plenty of people with advanced degrees and others who have been very successful in life but were poor spellers and grammatically poor writers.

[OKCisOK4me]

Good spellers are probably born, not made. I'm firmly convinced that spelling has nothing to do with intelligence and is an innate ability, like being a good artist. However, most poor spellers know who they are and should not volunteer to be in charge of signage.

I disagree. Because even if you learned how to spell correctly and you were typing on say, your computer, it would notify you of a word being misspelled or that it's not in the computer dictionary by putting the red squiggly line underneath the word so you can either fix it or you can highlight, right click and choose the correct spelling. I know that when I type the word February it gives me the squiggly line. Fortunately, I know how to spell it! They made that sign on a computer so they must not be literate on what certain things mean on a computer.

I believe this to be very true.
I have known plenty of people with advanced degrees and others who have been very successful in life but were poor spellers and grammatically poor writers.

And then I saw this ^^. I'm completely opposite! Okay, I was on a college campus for two years. It wasn't the life for me. Maybe I'll go back and finish one of these days, but I'm not 'degree'd' (new word) yet I would hate to spell something wrong. Maybe it's because I'm anal retentive and everything must be as perfect as possible, I don't know. If it comes down to being born then it's in the DNA. If it comes down to being learned (which I think is more than likely) then it's all about what's available to you--resources and what not.

Hey, if anyone knows that The Oklahoman has a spellchecker (and sports scores too, cause they're backward a lot) position available, let me know. Cause they have major issues too!

[TheTravellers]

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Hey, if anyone knows that The Oklahoman has a spellchecker (and sports scores too, cause they're backward a lot) position available, let me know. Cause they have major issues too!

This bothered me for years, but when I got married, I understood - my wife's been a copy editor for decades and it's just the way the software they use works. I had thought they typed stuff up in a word processor, then took that spell/grammar-checked item and stuck it on a page, then repeated over and over again until the pages were full of stories and ads. But the page layout and pagination software (Quark, or Adobe, or some proprietary stuff) just doesn't have spell-checking capabilities. Which I think is just wrong, but that's why papers still use human copy editors (and unfortunately, way too few of those to catch all the problems).

[Kerry]

Wanted to start a new thread since my comment was way off on a tangent in the other thread...



Argh, SPELLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why can't people just run a 3-word sign by somebody else and ask "Does this look right?" I see *so* many spelling and grammar errors on menus, signs, business cards, notices, etc. here in OKC it's just really, really sad and does not reflect well on OKC. La Baguette Colcord spells soup soupe, tartare as Tar Tar, and then I just stopped noting the errors. I pointed out that City Bites had a big banner promoting "Pumkin Bread" and they just said "Wow, never noticed that before, that's hilarious". Illiteracy is funny now, how pathetic. I'm tempted to start being one of those guys that carries white-out, paintbrushes, etc. in an attempt to fix this crap...

This is what I find funny. Soupe is French for soup. La Baguette is a French restaurant. That being said, I know what you mean.

Also there is a difference between steak tartar and steak tartare. One is cooked and the other is not.

Recipe for steak tartare
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1827...232201,00.html

Recipe for steak tartar
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,171,...245193,00.html

[TheTravellers]

This is what I find funny. Soupe is French for soup. La Baguette is a French restaurant. That being said, I know what you mean.

Also there is a difference between steak tartar and steak tartare. One is cooked and the other is not.

Recipe for steak tartare
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1827...232201,00.html

Recipe for steak tartar
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,171,...245193,00.html

I really don't want to see the recipe for Steak Tar Tar, though.

And La Baguette would be fine spelling soup soupe, if they were consistent.

[Midtowner]

I'm much more concerned with apostrophe's being misused to indicate plural's [sic].

[OKCTalker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves

[skyrick]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves

A great book for the compulsive proofreader. I love her obsession for the mistake in "Two Week's Notice".

[Matt]

Atrocious Spelling in L.A.:

[MadMonk]

Atrocious Spelling in L.A.:

Aww, why the long face?

[Kerry]

Aww, why the long face?

Because that picture of Tori was taken right after her billionaire father said he was leaving all his money to enviro-causes and told her she was on her own. If my parents had done that to me I would have gone 'Lyle and Erik Menendez' on them. You don't want your child inheriting your money, fine, but don't raise her with it in the first place.

[MadMonk]

Because that picture of Tori was taken right after her billionaire father said he was leaving all his money to enviro-causes and told her she was on her own. If my parents had done that to me I would have gone 'Lyle and Erik Menendez' on them. You don't want your child inheriting your money, fine, but don't raise her with it in the first place.

Never mind.

[OKCTalker]

Kids today think that they can make it on spellcheck - they can't, of course, because the utility can't distinguish between to, too and two, or there, their and they're, etc. I simply consider misspellings to be a hint about competence, or lack thereof.