posted on November 9, 2004 07:20:10 AM
:: On MSNBC last night, they had a news article about the US assualt into the IRAQI city of Fallujah...
EXCEPT they spelled it: Phallus -- which I thought was kind of a bone-headed mistake...::
Sounds like someone wasn't paying attention to the spellcheck suggestions. I did that once... had a story I had written about an event that took place in an old warehouse. Kept misspelling warehouse and let spellcheck do the fix without paying attention. Next thing I knew, I had written a story about an event in an old whorehouse.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
[ edited by fenix03 on Nov 9, 2004 07:20 AM ]
posted on November 9, 2004 07:47:02 AM
lol ... yeah, spell check doesn't catch everything ...
I once listed an 8x10 paper doll art drawing of Burt Reynolds with an outfit or two on the page ... i said it was such good art that Burt would look well hung on any wall of your house.
posted on November 9, 2004 08:45:31 AM
Fenix, I was a secretary and took steno many moons ago. One time on a temp assignment I made a really stupid translation for a Chinese executive whose english was badly accented to begin with. He always wanted to dictate letters. (I guess it made him feel important.)
It so happened the owner of the company was schmoozing these bank executives for a big time loan and was inviting them to his mansion over the 4th of July holiday weekend. Well, my steno was rusty to begin with and I relied alot on memory. But this day he happened to give me three or four letters in a row. One of the paragraphs in one letter was supposed to read: Please feel free to bring your own swimming trucks and tennis rackets.
I couldnt for the life of me figure out what I had shorthanded there! I dont know where I pulled it out of my head...but I guess in my mind, I'm thinking,...It's 4th of July,...they're out cavorting by the pool, having a good ole boys time.... So I wrote: please feel free to bring your own swimming trucks and firecrackers.
LOL>>>>>(What? Like we're chinese and can get them for next to nothing, but you bring your own...?
hahaha!!!
If you ever wanted to see a little chinese man open his eyes as wide as can be with indignation!! "What you mean to put fire cracker - I said tenna rackar". I was mortified; and then I wanted to laugh uncontrolably at how stupid that was. But I couldnt, of course. All the other secretaries roared when they heard that because he was like a 4'9 chinese hitler (CFO of the company) and nobody would work for him how he carried on. Of course the letter was fixed, but whew! was I glad I only had about a week left on that assignment!!
posted on November 9, 2004 09:01:11 AM
Sometimes my husband will enter the last names of many of some of our friends and acquaintances in WordPerfect, then do SpellCheck. The results can be hilarious. An odd spelling of a b---y woman we know suggested several alternate spellings, all of which described her to a T. Doesn't work as well with common names, but with odd names it's a hoot.
posted on November 9, 2004 09:12:08 AM
I was a secretary for many years. One boss I had and I worked for 6 CPA's, would peruse every letter until he found anything he could itch about.
He finally returned the letter and wrote a note and said, You mispelled this word. I corrected it and wrote a note back and said, You misspelled mispelled."
posted on November 9, 2004 10:50:45 AM
My husband showed me a paper written by one of his college students where his last name was replaced with the name of a large awkard animal. He was angry because he thought the student was tryin to insult him. I had to laugh because in years as a corporate employee I got used to seeing Microsoft spell checkers give this "suggestion" every time I typed my last name. I had to tell him the student was just careless and not insulting him.
You really have to watch that you are not too quick with the click while spell checking. I once caught a presentation that almost went out with an executive's last name spelled as Pitiful! -----o----o----o----o----o----o----o----o
The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
posted on November 9, 2004 06:19:27 PM
One time I selling a VW TRANSAXLE, spellcheck After,,,I sent it, corrected it to transexual,,,,He was from the San Fransisco area so was not offened,,,that WAS one FUN communcations...
posted on November 9, 2004 08:42:11 PM
Many years ago I worked for an orthopedist. I had to type a compensation report explaining how the patient was injured. It seems a 20 pound clock fell on his foot, fracturing it. Only problem was, I left the "L" out of the word clock! Never lived that one down.
posted on November 9, 2004 09:41:17 PM
ROFL !! OMG you guys and gals had me in tears I was laughing so hard. It's so funny how one little letter can make such a huge impact. Thanks so much for sharing these !!
