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- dvsbastard, on 10/10/2007, -1/+74Proofreading is a waist of time.
Berried. - ElectricSheep7, on 10/10/2007, -8/+29Short, obvious and pointless article. Burried for dumb-ass picture of guy.
- fubes2000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
- AlphaEta, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18I hate to be the village A-hole, but couldn't this article have been summed up in one phrase: Don't trust your spell checker.
Proofread your work... no *****! - MrKas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14I can have to blaim lolcats
- meew, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13sharp article :)
it takes time to find the errors, because while reading you tend to correct them... so take your time to read it carefully =) - drunkentoad, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12haha, great title
luckily 7/10 diggers use viagra - Saiing, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10The tragic thing about this article, is that the people who need it most will:
a) Not even understand the joke in the title, and/or
b) Consider it boring and skim over it.
I actually used to work as a professional proofreader for a translation company. The quality of writing I see everyday on the 'net makes me want to weep. - dvsbastard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8That is the only typo you noticed?!
I think the ironic humour has been missed on a lot of people here... - tidu, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12Blue or Rasp?
- HUKI365, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6In fact, don't it yourself at all. Get someone else to do so.
- Fungo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Know ewe don't. I think you're spelling is fine. In fact, you're righting is probably better then mine. I had to spellcheck my hole post, and here are the corrections.
- LincolnA, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6First of all, you obviously don't get the joke.
Second, the correction requires more than adding an 'R'...
Nice try, though. - swordedge, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7I'd be happy if more people actually USED a spell checker. Never mind the proof reading. And the comments count 12 errors in that article.
- WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6That was a waist of thyme!
- Ajjah, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7It's more stunningly witty than you can comprehend. Obviously.
- Zinite, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5K we get it, putting the wrong word is funny.
- chenkersthecat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Don't they cover this ***** in elementary school?
- chochazel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I only came here cause I wanted to see if anyone totally missed the point of the text and just thought it was a really short and obvious article, or just found one spelling mistake and thought the author was an idiot and they were really clever.
I was expecting one or two, but I can't believe the number of people who have commented who seem to fall into one of these two categories.
This place is dumbing down. We need more articles that ignorant blustering people will miss the point of and bury. Then relink the bury button to a "ban me forever" button.
That'll sort them. - Azimuth1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Wow, I didn't even notice that until I read your comment.
- Richandler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The whole article is a joke. Digg isn't college.
- Nok1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Anyone else twitch nervously at his grammatical typos, even though they were very carefully and purposefully placed?
- Rabid_Llama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4hahaha, a spirited but pretty blatant troll, swing and a miss
- neko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Your dumb if you misspell, Every one knows a spellchecker can run threw you're document and tell you were you're errors where
(*ouch*.. it pained me writing that..) - Xspire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4LOL, I don't know if it is kind of geeky of me or what, but the whole time I was reading that I was smiling. That was funny.
- Zephistage, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I've got this weird sort of anal-retentive thing where I immediately pause reading and read back over a word when I see a misspelling. I've been known to point out lots of spelling errors on forums. A spelling or grammatical error to me is like a glitch. It'll seriously make the reading center of my brain hang, so to speak.
- MrZop, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I was only interested in this story cause i thought it was a Taylor Mali article.
'Poems From The Like Free Zone' is a great spoken word album that any grammar-geek should get. - fairyfish, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4yes, proofreading is very important, special for Chinese, there is no spell checker.
- CaptainSponge, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4It's like nails on a blackboard when someone spells your instead of you're...
- GerryBot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Just wasted 5 minutes reading that, and it wasn't even funny.
- andrewcsayer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I poof read every siingle one of my blog pots
- bluebirdgm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4It's funnier when Taylor Mali does this bit: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FjhOBiSk8Gg
- stacky, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Eye half a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Couldn't find a source for that, but it wasn't me. - MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That made me laff
- WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Why not just write it backwards? Then you will catch the errors when reading it forward.
- atralyx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4So many people whining over "your/you're" What about every one now saying "addicting" ....addictive has always been the correct word and suddenly its addicting ???? , you is now U and are is now R , and the many many ways to say someone is bested or has won or is better in some way or ALL generalized in the word owned ........or worse yet pwned , i swear every one born from the mid 80's on were born with attention deficit disorder Now commence "correcting" me and digging me down , maybe at least 1 person will get my point
- neondiet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3
Proof reading isn't infallible. Sometimes we go a little word blind and still miss mistakes we made first time round. My advise is, if you're going to proof read something you've just written, temporarily change the font, colour or size; or any combination of those so it looks visibly different from what you've just written. You'll be less likely to skip over mistakes. Alternatively, file it and come back to it 30 minutes later when you've had a chance to do something else and give your brain a change of focus. - Caleb83, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3As someone who reads a lot of books, I find it frustrating to come across a misspelling in a book. In a newspaper or other daily publications I can overlook, because you're doing that job a lot, errors are bound to come through. But there's no excuse for a book to have such errors. Here's one instance: "He was drifting father and farther away" Unacceptable. This not only interrupts the flow of the narrative, but it makes it seem like the book was rushed. Not to mention it doesn't make the author look like a genius, either.
- Foenetik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2the red penis your friend.
- racheldorman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2To all the people who have buried this as obvious or pointless: I'm one of the worst 'grammar nazis' and am usually quick to spot spelling and grammar mistakes in other peoples' writing; however, I just skimmed through this article (in a rush, lunch break nearly over...), and actually spotted only ONE mistake first time around - which happened to be 'coarse', and I just assumed it was done deliberately and obviously for impact - it wasn't until I reached the end of the article that I realised I was supposed to have noticed loads. Now, I know that I'm far less likely to pick up on mistakes in my own writing, so the fact I was oblivious to most of this guy's 'mistakes' until I read it thoroughly just highlighted how complacent I'd become. Maybe our brains correct for the odd mistake where there's only one likely true meaning, but the mistake in the title was the last one I realised, I'd actually assumed it was correct and that I just didn't understand the author's intent - these sort of mistakes are cruicial when we're changing the meaning of important information (contracts, safety notices, etc) and bad habits will die hard. So, dugg - for giving me (if nobody else) a much-needed kick up the bum.
- envec, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The point of the article is not to give the message that "proofreading is important." It is a kind of a funny-joke piece.
Can you catch all the 13 mistakes? - zweben, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Stupid yes, but I'm sorta glad it's on the front page; anything that will get people to stop posting with the spelling skills of a 3rd grader is fine by me.
- zyklon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Wow, I really agree that most people need help with they're English grammar. Its a real problem now a days I've noticed in bogs, My space and Face book.
- richgustavson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Corny.
- envec, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2sherlock is your nickname, aint it?
- AttackingHobo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well, actually, Office 2007 tells me when my grammar is incorrect...
I is afraids. - ltkerr0r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I noticed this yesterday when looking up info on the movie "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry". I found a lot of sites spelling it "I KNOW Pronounce You Chuck and Larry". " A "know pronounce you" google search gets 12,800 results. Even VH1 got it wrong
- tony4moroney, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You're an embarrassment and so are all the pretentious grammar-nazi's that dugg this comment up without realizing the article submitter intentionally misspelled words in the nature of the topic of proof-reading.
- WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1As in "The red PEN IS your friend. "
- WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So, are you saying it is PSAM?
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