Official notices should be checked and rechecked for errors

Rockingham, Australia

November 1, 2020 5:32pm CST

On our trip home from the north of Western Australia, we called in to see the Geraldton memorial to the cruiser, HMAS Sydney II. During World War II, the Sydney was engaged in a battle with the German ship HSK Kormoran and went down with the loss of 645 men. I remembered that there was a grammatical error in one of the plaques. Others on myLothave mentioned how they hate seeing these types of errors so I took a photo of the offending plaque. Maybe you can spot the error in the second paragraph.

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (117199)

• El Paso, Texas

2 Nov 20

Its a common error and I think I make it a lot but you're right, it shouldn't have happened on a plaque like this.

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (117199)

• El Paso, Texas

2 Nov 20

I agree @JudyEv It seems that these days people just use excuses like "Everyone makes mistakes, it's just human" instead of "Let me fix that mistake, sorry about that" I was taught to strive for accuracy.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381762)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Nov 20

@rebelann I think, like you, on anything official, being accurate is very important.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381762)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Nov 20

This is really quite an important memorial and will be seen by thousands. It's pretty slack in my opinion.

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Kayla Tsukino

@kaylachan (84699)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

1 Nov 20

I wouldn't be able to read that even if I tried. But, everyone makes mistakes. This was a big one apparently. Not so easy to correct I guess depending on what's made of and how it was constructed.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381762)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Nov 20

Certainly it wouldn't be easy to correct but on a public monument like this, there shouldn't be any errors.

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Kayla Tsukino

@kaylachan (84699)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

2 Nov 20

@JudyEv I know, but sadly people still make them. It's funny if you can see them through.

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crazyhorseladycx

@crazyhorseladycx (39503)

• United States

2 Nov 20

oh my word! one'd think with the funds spent fer such that'd be 'xactly how much care would'a been taken. how sad such's left to be ('r perhaps the folks who'd such done 're fightin' fer a corrected'un?) seen by all.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381762)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Nov 20

On something so 'official' and important, you'd think they'd take better care to have things exact.

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crazyhorseladycx

@crazyhorseladycx (39503)

• United States

3 Nov 20

@JudyEv fer certain, most disturbin' that such 'twas not so. i know 't took nearly 4 yrs to get my mamaw 'n papaw's headstone corrected. long, ugly story there.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381762)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Nov 20

@crazyhorseladycx We had a lot of trouble with my brother's headstone too. In the end they did a second one but even that wasn't precisely as we wanted it. In the beginning, we had to say what we wanted and sign a form saying we'd stick to that. But they changed the format themselves which meant there wasn't room for my sister's details when one day, she'll be buried in the same plot. It was very annoying.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14782)

• Ireland

2 Nov 20

@judyev Our eagle-eyed German friend @maluse will spot this a mile away!

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14782)

• Ireland

2 Nov 20

@MALUSE I know!

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381762)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Nov 20

I knew both you and Malu would pick up the error very quickly. We've spoken about it before, haven't we?

Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381762)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Nov 20

@MALUSE It makes me shudder to see errors like this.

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JB_girl

@sol_cee (38669)

• Philippines

1 Nov 20

It’s vs its arrgghh

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381762)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Nov 20

I find it annoying. It shouldn't be difficult to get it right in the first place.

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@GodServantme (1543)

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2 Nov 20

I dont see anything error

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381762)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Nov 20

In the line 'welcoming home it's loved ones' there shouldn't be an apostrophe in 'it's'. There should only be an apostrophe when you want to say 'it is' and you shorten it to it's.

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@GodServantme (1543)

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3 Nov 20

@JudyEv

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (86575)

• United States

2 Nov 20

The typos I saw in the Pioneer Village at Spring Mill State Park would make a proofreader drunk. I agree with you, they should be checked. How hard is it to have an extra set of eyes look something over? Especially something that short. We aren't talking proofreading War and Peace here....

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381762)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Nov 20

And also something on an important public memorial.

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