Special of the day
On my way to work today I passed a café advertising ‘spegeti bolagniz’ as the special of the day. I knew what they meant and I’m sure it would have tasted fine, but it made me wonder, does correct spelling really matter? In this age of text speak, which is more important? Getting it right or getting your message across?
I sit firmly in the get it right camp and I believe that poor spelling makes a message less credible. It seems that Simon Heffer is a man after my own heart and long may he wax lyrical.
If a writer hasn’t gone to the trouble of spell checking, how can I be sure that the rest of the piece is accurate? What sort of message should I take from a document riddled with spelling errors? Job applications are a case in point. If you can’t even spell correctly in your own CV, what chance have you got when you’re writing on behalf of our clients? We are in the communications industry and need to get it right. Please don’t tell me, as more than one unfortunate candidate has, that you have always wanted to work in ‘pubic’ relations. As for the bright thing who assured me that he was ‘fully computer illiterate’, no chance.
Sadly it seems that everyone is getting in on the act, from local councils to EBay sellers and as for the misuse of apostrophes, let’s not go there!
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Comments (2)
December 9th, 2008 at 12:00 pm Posted by Becky McMichael
Speshul indeed.
I can haz yr typos plz?
December 10th, 2008 at 11:02 am Posted by Hugh McKinney
I remember seeing what looked like an expensive neon sign in Glasgow on the front of a cafe that read:
Roll’s, sandwich’s, pie’s, tea’s coffee’s.
I wondered why the sign maker didn’t rai’se thi’s with the owner’s of the cafe.
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