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How have I missed that all these years!? Thanks!
I must admit I read DZfire your Ad People and thought I'd missed a new bot release........
depends which part of the world the ad was created in some words are spelt different in different parts of the world such as colour spelled in the U.K. or Australia and color is spelled in America. Same with how some wording can be used and then there's the translation from one language to another such as how some Asian descriptions are translated into English which can be pretty amusing and confusing.
I've got to say, I'm curious about the pork chops.
There's actually a lot of truth to this, I've seen it happen again and again.
You're right on that point wiz. You should have used a comma before that direct quote from Murphy.
The two errors I see most commonly here are the words then for than, and to for too.
I think the English language is "deteriorating" because nowadays billions of people speak it from all over the worlds and they add their own dialect/sleng to it. My kids speak perfect english, but they didn't learn it in school. They learned in from Cartoon Network, Steam and other online games where there are people of all natioanlity trying to communicate with different slengs, and chatrooms. I am quite proud of them and I am very happy that English became the worlds first language. In spite of all the LOL's, LMFAO"s etc its a beautiful language and very easy to learn. And all languages change in time. I wouldn't understand a word of Shakespeare's english today.
So times change, people change and languages change with them.
having raised a Dyslexic child I am very fluent in typonese. I actually think some typos can be very funny. my son, when we were rebuilding my freebie website, typed "please bare with us" on the splash screen. As mine is a site offering alternate styles for clothing products we decided to leave it, and the typo was there until the site was fully rebuilt.
My still-to-be-caffeinated self saw the soft, peach-coloured writing across the 'Budget Hotel' promo when I got up this morning and my blurry eyes read 'Brothel'. The sad thing is, I wasn't immediately surprised. It didn't look one bit out of place among all the long legs and cleavage on the front page. I'm on the side of the 'grammar Nazis' in the Ad People debate. I try to be generous with these mistakes because we've all made them, but when I see a prominently placed ad with a sloppy error then my mind jumps to the conclusion that the product being sold is full of errors too. Of course it does - that's why companies typically spend a fortune on getting their advertising right and making sure it's sending the right message. If a fortune is overkill or unavailable, then at the very least a proofreader is a good idea.
Mercutio: This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him
To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle
Of some strange nature, letting it there stand
Till she had laid it and conjured it down;
That were some spite: my invocation
Is fair and honest, and in his mistress' name
I conjure only but to raise up him.
"A plague o' both your houses!"
That explains bike riders in big cities...
Correct spelling does matter for exactly this reason.
I'm slitl cruoius aobut the prok cohps.
Standard english an easy language to learn to mimic
phonetically but its actual rules rule of spelling and pronunciation depend way too much on rote memorization
and western cultural literacy as there are no visual clues, in the text itself, for foreigners to know when not to pronounce silent "E's"at the end of some words for example.
I realized this when I learned Arabic a few years ago.
In Arabic ,there are Little Didactic symbols
such as the "Kasrah,Fatha ,Dhamma & Sukun" that tells the language student exactly how to pronouce the vowels.
( "E" as in Feet as opposed "E" as in test)
or when a vowel is silent as is the last "e" in the word Kite.
I watch alot of Japanese anime and this weakness in written English becomes obvious when a japanese speaker pronounces the word Kite as "Kyt -ehh" because there are no visual clue in the text itself to tell him that last "e" is silent.
I Think the More depressing problem, in these modern times, is the deterioration of handwriting itself.
My own handwriting has become so bad that
I cannot faithfully reproduce My own signature twice with any recognizable fidelity between the two.
Recently I've made a determined effort to revive my longhand writing. I esentially stopped writing in longhand when I started printing or typing essays in High School (back in the middle of the last century) However, I did work on my signature for a half century. I am very proud of my signature. It's elegant, bold, unique & legible. then they come out with these miserable credit card swipe machines that want you to sign your name with a stick on an ergonomically disasterous clumsy digital tablet placed at the wrong height and with misalligned echo on the screen so that the writing appears a quarter inch above where your stick point is. Most confounding!
My signature on those things looks nothing at all like the flourish that I am so proud use to represent my authority. It's just a scribble that any chicken could manage in the barnyard. 
But as mentioned at the beginning, I've been reviving my longhand writing, just because it's becoming a lost art. Something of quality that my generation had that the new generation has thrown away. Like good spelling, grammar, and cave painting.
"Your" for "You're"
Yeah I know. I know someone with ADD who models very quickly.
In all honesty, languages simply changes over time with each passing generation. Its just the way it happens. English today is not the english of the past. I tried watching this series - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2262456/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_19 - and could not get into it cause of the old english they used inorder to be true to the period it represented.
Two used to be the norm; now one is the norm, and word processors throw a fit when there are two.
i dont have an issue in Libre Office (Writer) with two spaces.
Oh gawd... don't even get me started on that!!!
I read a great quote that basically said, pretty soon kids will have no ability to read or write longhand, so us oldtimers will be able to use it as secret code!!
I've been trying to learn Russian. Even practice Russian longhand. I was having trouble. Then I found this. I don't feel quite so bad now.
Well, not really. These are likely from Photoshop files, where everything is kept in layers, including the text. Unrasterized text layers are quickly edited by clicking in the text, and retyping it. Once spotted, a mistake like this would take 30 seconds to fix, and that would be on a slow computer!
In America, they spell words sensibly (thru). In England, we spell them properly (through).
Cheers,
Alex.
Just as a note, virtually all web-encoding treats text input as HTML for encoding standards. HTML/HTTP converts ALL whitespace to single spaces to conserve bandwidth. This is why there is a "non-breaking space" character ( ) that can be used and/or alternated to force spacing.
Yes, I've given in to that.
And when I type my tomes into web forums I usually omit the paragraph indentations. It's a sign that I'm not totally frozen in time.
I'm well aware that language changes but when paid professionals repeatedly don't do their job properly and their unprofessional carelessness or sloth is paraded for all to see, someone should pay the piper. 
(With notable exceptions for politicians! )
I was just noting why webforms can cause issues. I am a strong proponent of good grammar, usage, and spelling. In spoken language, it is understood that shortcuts and colloquialisms will be used. In informal speech, it happens to an even greater degree. But in the written form, language is supposed to be formal and precise.
Many of the arguments for the more recent 'changes' to English reduce down to nothing more than a simple "We started using it incorrectly, but don't want to admit we were wrong and start using it properly." It's not difficult to use the right words and use them in the right way. Punctuation, spelling, grammar, usage.....we spend 12-13 years in school learning it. (My school, a 1st to 12th school, we had English class EVERY year.) You would think it would sink in just by osmosis, but evidently it doesn't.
And don't even get me started on the issues with not teaching kids cursive writing......
Greetings,
Of all the things to take a DAZ ad copy person to task for, 'live' vs. 'life' is... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm presuming the OP was already in a crotchety mood and got into a, 'THIS FAR, AND NO FURTHER!' mindset from it. It's not a firing offense. It's a 'We should double-check our work before it goes public' offense, at the worst. And (under the presumption that a small company like DAZ has more than one ad person) calling out other ad copy issues doesn't necessarily mean the same person did them.
Or perhaps the whole point was the absolute absurdity of hyperbolic reaction over a trivial offense...
Sure, you can make a slippery slope argument until the cows come home. (Mixin' up dem meta4s like I was bjőrn to be mild!) That doesn't make it true.
Or, in the words of my heroin: (and now you get to figure out if I really meant that, because it works both ways!)
The tpyos never bothered me anyway.
-- Morgan
You spell them French, we spell them German
And then there are words that make no sense from whatever end you happen to be looking at at the time:
Aluminum, Herbs, Aubergine vs. Eggplant, anti-clockwise (that's just paradoxical time travel to an American), Digestive (Something that sounds disgusting but it's brilliant, and that has nothing to do with math), mad vs. crazy, mental vs.crazy, daft vs. crazy: do the English even have a word for crazy? Biscuit/Cookie, Crisps/Chips, Chips/Fries, French Fries/Freedom Fries, French Roast Coffee/America Juice, Pudding (your pudding is made from the same animal as our Jello), Dr. Who, The Who, The Guess-Who (they're Canadian!), The Irish Who (U2), All the Who's in Whoville! The unpopularity of The Cure in England, Americans who never heard of Robbie Williams or Paul Weller, or Cliff Bloody Richards!