Atrocious spelling in OKC

[rcjunkie]

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[rcjunkie]

Not that I had high expectations, but.........



Saw these two at NE 23 and Classen.

I bet they at least know Classen is NW and not NE.

[BBatesokc]

I bet they at least know Classen is NW and not NE.

I originally typed NE 23 and Santa Fe (since that gas station is where they hung out for a week or so), and then looked at iPhoto and saw it tagged it at Classen. In my hurry I didn't correct the NE to NW. But, either everyone else didn't realize it or knew what I meant. But, since I know you only meant it in the friendliest and helpful of ways, then thanks for pointing it out.

[flintysooner]

My favorite is when you ask someone how they are doing and they say ‘Good’. Really? What are they doing that is so good? The correct response is ‘fine’ or ‘well’. Bad and good are answers to moral questions.

Good and bad may also refer to mood as adjectives in which case either would be a perfectly fine answer to the query. Personally I have no problem with good and bad used in reference to health either. It seems to me no more prone to miscommunication than using "feeling well" to mean excellent tactile sensitivity. Although I doubt that is frequently misconstrued either.

[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).

[Jim Kyle]

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[BB37]

Well, he seems to have nabbed a kind of cute gal. That ought to count for something.

And she seems rather well dressed and coifed to be out on a streetcorner begging. JMHO.

[Larry OKC]

There are times when the "typo" is done on purpose. Was often told by management when putting up the reader board to sometimes misspell a word (or turn a letter backwards etc). Sales of whatever item we were pushing that week would increase (over the previous week when the correct spelling would be used). It was an attention getter. Many people would come through and comment, "Did you know..." (ordering the item) we would smile and thank them for letting us know.

[TheTravellers]

There are times when the "typo" is done on purpose. Was often told by management when putting up the reader board to sometimes misspell a word (or turn a letter backwards etc). Sales of whatever item we were pushing that week would increase (over the previous week when the correct spelling would be used). It was an attention getter. Many people would come through and comment, "Did you know..." (ordering the item) we would smile and thank them for letting us know.

Wow, people are easily led around by that invisible ring in their noses.... That's just so unacceptable, though. Specifically to me, of course, but probably to millions of other people - I can't really speak for them, I just suspect that most people would have complete disdain for this practice, but hey, it's all for the almighty $$$, so it must be fine to do, since that's all that matters in the USA these days.

[Roadhawg]

People that spell well are made. I have never seen an illiterate that can spell well. We have a family friend that just finished 6th in the Scripps National Spelling Bee and if you think she was able to do that by natural talent you're crazy. She had to work at it.

wow... just when I thought people couldn't get any dumber.