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- linkdj, on 04/21/2008, -29/+263Wow. I really couldn't give a *****.
- Foofoofoofoobar, on 04/21/2008, -15/+132Anybody who bitches about these errors has too much time on their hands.
- DevinOlsen, on 04/21/2008, -21/+134Nobody cares...
- Bukowsky, on 04/21/2008, -5/+87Submitted 23 days ago, and just NOW making the Front page? How the ***** does that fit into the digg algorithm??
- linkdj, on 04/21/2008, -2/+76I'm sorry, but if you read the article, you would know that exclamation mark you are using was from an antiquated 1806 typewriter spec that only made the dot the size of one pixel, when in fact Congress passed a law in 1921 requiring all exclamation point points to be at least 2 pixels wide. Next time please use the proper exclamation point by holding down the alt key, and then shooting yourself in the head.
- NewsrmPicasso, on 04/21/2008, -5/+41I care! I work at a newspaper. Believe me, there are readers that point this stuff out...and not in a nice way.
- lebruf, on 04/21/2008, -1/+34Now I know what a douchebag I sound like when I point out rules nobody cares about.
- nekochan, on 04/21/2008, -1/+33you mean "…" instead of "...", right?
- inactive, on 04/21/2008, -10/+42So...in your sad haste to suck Firefox's broswer *****, you didn't even bother to read the article, did you?
- inactive, on 04/21/2008, -7/+38The article seems to be written for typographers... not suitable for Digg.
- inactive, on 04/21/2008, -11/+38Uhhh..these aren't typos. They are acceptable uses for people using typrewriters and now computers without switching fonts. Ths site is just pathetically anal.
- juniorb, on 04/21/2008, -1/+27As a graphics/layout designer—doing magazine layouts, annual reports for large companies, catalogs, and many kind of marketing materials—I work with type constantly, and I have to deal with each and every one of these “mistakes” on a day-to-day basis.
- emalen, on 04/21/2008, -1/+23You must be new. I'd like to welcome you to digg. Now please, gtfo. Have a nice day.
- inactive, on 04/21/2008, -0/+20Eh, wrong quotes there. You should be using the ‘sixty-six and ninety-nine’ quotes. For shame.
- karmakanic, on 04/21/2008, -2/+22Hmmm.....you lost to yourself.
- Tenlow, on 04/21/2008, -1/+20I've actually never in my life seen a middle dot in a price. I was under the impression that a decimal point was correct mark to use to denote a decimal.
- burstaneurysm, on 04/21/2008, -3/+22That was an improper ellipsis, *****.
- frazw, on 04/21/2008, -0/+18Yes, they are not mistakes, each is a work-around. They may be lazy but no meaning is lost so they are largely irrelevant.
- santiago1, on 04/21/2008, -0/+18 So, if everyone is so upset by this article, why is it on the front page? Is it so hard to select the "bury for being lame" button, or do you just feel the need to digg it so everyone else has to read your bitching?
- humperdeath, on 04/21/2008, -0/+17I know, I am always making the mistake of not orienting the 'north' arrow in the correct way, then I might estimate the distance in 'straight line' rather than following the road for the actual distance.
Oh wait, these are topographical errors.
Nevermind. - rodrigorules, on 04/21/2008, -0/+16you aren't missing much
- Acglaphotis, on 04/21/2008, -0/+16Youtube called, they want their comment back.
- MikeWanDo, on 04/21/2008, -0/+15No, those are the wrong quotes, you need to use the other ones. Not that I could actually get any of their alt characters to work in anything.
- Asvetic, on 04/21/2008, -2/+16Written for Typographers and Designers who are also Digg Users. While this is a niche article, I probably wouldn't have seen it without Digg's help.
- IllBeBack, on 04/21/2008, -0/+12“Yawn." Hmmm, it looks like Digg won’t let me use the correct quotes anyway, so Digg doesn’t care about typography.
- InferiorWang, on 04/21/2008, -0/+12Those mistakes really only count if you are doing graphic design professionally. When you design brochures, pamphlets, menus, logos, letterhead, etc. for high-end clients, every little mistake tarnishes the image of your client, and your image as well.
- IllBeBack, on 04/21/2008, -1/+12So, when Firefox spell checks the word "your," it seems to be ok. And yet the correct word is "you're" when you mean to say "you are." And it's obvious that Firefox wasn't able to assist you in capitalizing the fist word of your weak-ass sentence.
So, in summary, ***** off. - humperdeath, on 04/21/2008, -1/+11Unless you work for the Department of Redundancy Dept.
- irvin666, on 04/21/2008, -4/+14I have never once, in my life, heard of a "middle dot" on prices. Ever.
- P522, on 04/21/2008, -2/+12A bunch of you sound like the guy who wrote "You know what's stupid? Everything I don't understand?" http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/you_know_w ...
- inactive, on 04/21/2008, -1/+11I bet Hillary uses the wrong ***** quotes.
- newbill123, on 04/21/2008, -0/+9This is good to know when information is going into a final (aka "dead") presentation format. If I'm making a printed report that I will NOT have to also distribute electronically, I go whole hog to include correct typography.
On the web and in formats where the text will be computer readable, I default to typewriter hacks instead of typography. The computer is still pretty dumb and can't automatically deduce intent behind typographic variations. Some search engines will be choked if my text specifies fractions and curly quotes when the searcher is only entering numbers, slashes, and straight quotes.
Unless I can be sure this is for human viewing only, I fall back to using the typewriter customs. Otherwise, using fancy typography is just being pretentious and obfuscating the meaning of my own work. - NathanielJ, on 04/21/2008, -0/+9Uh, copy writers care, trust me. It's obviously not a list meant to be used by people when making comments on Digg, but you'd better believe that publishers and editors have to live by these rules.
- Trebis, on 04/21/2008, -8/+16And nothing of value was learned.
- bethlagarrison, on 04/21/2008, -0/+8These errors are nothing compared to larger type errors like improper kerning and leading.
Learn how to set type properly before you start to give a ***** about any of these. - jordan314, on 04/21/2008, -1/+9The curly quotes “ ” (don't know if digg is going to convert these) have caused me more grief as a programmer and web designer than I care to think about. I hate those things.
- inactive, on 04/21/2008, -4/+12Useful piece of knowledge for those who like learning new things every day. That seems to exclude most Americans, but that's hardly any news... And then they whine about H1Bs and Mexicans taking their jobs. What a huge surprise!
- oneoverzero, on 04/21/2008, -1/+8I, at the very least, find it mildly interesting (albeit useless), but thats probably just because I like typography.
I also kinda took the article as a bit of satire against the people who correct every little thing about your grammar and spelling... - cbreaker, on 04/21/2008, -1/+8Not true. While pretty much all of these things he's listed aren't really valid for most things online, it's always good to know the "proper" way of doing things anyways.
Learning is never a bad thing - it's not like your brain is going to run out of space. - wacomwacoff, on 04/21/2008, -0/+7Punching people in the face because you read an article about quotation marks? Violent much?
- Peko, on 04/21/2008, -0/+6im in yr base steelin yr sheep
- adambadam, on 04/21/2008, -3/+9I found it interesting about the periods vs. middle dots in prices. I never even thought that there would have been any reason for it to be different.
- wacomwacoff, on 04/21/2008, -0/+6Some of these are indeed important from a design perspective (the 'curly quotes' instead of inch marks), but several of these rules are British and do not apply to American English (such as the completely obsolete 'interpunct' instead of a decimal dot in prices).
- dreamtiger, on 04/21/2008, -11/+17Perfectionists rejoice! This is great!
- SubjectiveC, on 04/21/2008, -0/+6Me neither. It looks like multiplication.
- voetsjoeba, on 04/21/2008, -0/+5Here's my list of typographic mistakes:
#1-10: Using Comic Sans MS - NathanielJ, on 04/21/2008, -0/+6...but that's exactly what his statement said. And that's also exactly what this article said.
- linkdj, on 04/21/2008, -0/+5You know what's stupid? Truncated links.
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