Does no-one...

@owlwings (43915)

• Cambridge, England

24 Jun 17

Perhaps there are proof readers, perhaps not. The trouble is that proof readers (if they exist) often seem to be only a little less careless than the writers! "Of" instead of "have" is really not uncommon these days. My other pet hates are misspellings like "viola" for "voila", "persay" for "per se", "could care less" for "couldn't care less", "flourescent" for "fluorescent", "flower" for "flour" (saw that just yesterday in the instructions accompanying a ravioli maker), to specify just a few. Also, things like "Mum's" for "Chrysanthemums" (there are two teeth-grinders there - the ghastly abbreviation and the head-shaking intrusive apostophe!).

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@owlwings (43915)

• Cambridge, England

24 Jun 17

@pgntwo I presume that dear Otto was a Finn (like the first mobile phones), so can't be expected to have perfect English. It's not generally known that he had a twin brother, Innfärking, known as 'Inn' for short.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

24 Jun 17

@owlwings I think they were the sons of Ofä, if I remember my Finnish history...

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

24 Jun 17

Don't get me started. Otto on my phone is often one of the worst perpetrators of the heinous crime of the misplaced apostrophe - Otto Krekt. I even saw "you're" instead of "your" in the slide deck shown at an evening information session on university application processing at my son's school earlier this week... All the talk of Russell universities and Oxbridge and such, shattered by that single, misplaced, tick...

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69413)

• Germany

24 Jun 17

I'm just reading a novel on my kindle with lots of mistakes.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

24 Jun 17

I have experienced that too, there is a threshold at which it becomes an annoyance, then I give up and move onto something else.

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@owlwings (43915)

• Cambridge, England

24 Jun 17

Only 50 years ago you would have been castigated for writing 'lots of'. It would have been branded as 'slang'. Now it's merely 'colloquial'!

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

24 Jun 17

@owlwings I had not considered "lots of" as a hanging offence. "loadsa" and "tons", in that context, make me cringe.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458200)

• Switzerland

24 Jun 17

Oh goodness, I see mistakes everywhere, even on those I considered serious magazines.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

24 Jun 17

It is getting worse.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458200)

• Switzerland

24 Jun 17

@pgntwo I blame the auto correct and all the electronic devices. Too much Artificial Intelligence (that is not really intelligence) has killed human intelligence.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

24 Jun 17

@LadyDuck A true AI should be indistinguishable from talking g to a real person. Not there yet, thankfully.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (12598)

• Ireland

24 Jun 17

@pgntwo I could really get going on this but my doctor wants me to keep my blood pressure stable.

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@owlwings (43915)

• Cambridge, England

24 Jun 17

@xFiacre I bet your doctor has told you that till he's horse.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

24 Jun 17

A sine of the times

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Vicki, #1 Creek Girl

@1creekgirl (40523)

• United States

24 Jun 17

I totally agree. No one seems to pruff read anymores.

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

24 Jun 17

@1creekgirl Thank you

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

24 Jun 17

It seams not, bit of a stitch-up I fear.

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Vicki, #1 Creek Girl

@1creekgirl (40523)

• United States

24 Jun 17

@pgntwo Oh, I get it! That's clever.

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Xavier Bage

@franxav (13603)

• India

24 Jun 17

Some errors are absolutely shocking!

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@pgntwo (22408)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

24 Jun 17

Beyond the pale, and the pail too ;)

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Oshy

@TiarasOceanView (70035)

• United States

24 Jun 17

It baffles me to know what schooling at all, at all did they receive.

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Oshy

@TiarasOceanView (70035)

• United States

24 Jun 17

@pgntwo Exactly..probably fed on baloney and hot dogs thrown at them.

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Belle Starr (Iz)

@BelleStarr (61047)

• United States

24 Jun 17

I know, just wondered the same thing. I was reading our local newspaper and the list of graduates and there were a bunch of odd symbols between names, -= etc all things that should have been caught in a proof read.

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