DAZ fire your Ad People
LeatherGryphon
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Please tell me your ad agency is outsourced. Then fire them. 
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What is the problem with the ad?
Looks fine to me..unless it is just the spelling error...but that is hardly the grounds for a major complaint....yeah..people make mistakes.
It's in the image title.... it's LIFE not LIVE.....
Man, you better go back to the complaint thread.
Couldn't you have just said, "fix this?"
ROFL...
Its far from the first time.
QC needs to step up. This is not really ok.
If I see the "Download a free software" ad one more time, I swear I am going to have an embolism.
If I see a very obvious gramatical error like that in an ad, I make sure to stay as far away from that download as I can since my subconcious has linked bad spelling and grammar in software with malware and viruses
Grammical error eh? ;)
OP, hardly grounds for a divorce or 40 lashes.
it's a perfectly cromulant word.
Sigh, language has become so cheapened, nobody cares anymore. Vocabulary, grammar, spelling. It's all just a toss-up isn't it?
(And don't think I didn't find both misspellings of "grammatical" in the previous post.
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Welcome to the english language. We can use it however we want.
ps, you should try reading 13th century english
Problem is that they do that sort of thing over and over: usually misused words, sometimes offensive word choises, and an annoying number of what I consider intellectual property misuse. I haven't gotten over that big campaign last winter with Ralphie from A Christmas Story (and the "hand" problem that, once seen, could never be unseen).
Well, DAZ certainly doesn't care. They crafted a new editor for their forum that effectively disables spell checking AND most assistive technology. There are off-the-shelf editors they could plug in that are more feature rich and AT friendly.
That's just "Muphry's Law" in action.
Who's Muphry?
He's probably the guy who writes the rules about typos.
Damn... I wish I would have read this first... I was trying to "Breath Live Into 3D" for like twenty minutes and I couldn't figure it out... Finally I got lightheaded and passed out into a pile of raw pork chops (I'd be happy to explain that part if anyone is interested, but for now I'll move on).
When I went to look at the news I thought Dragons had attacked the Olympics games because of the ad's proximity to the story, but since that was pretty much inevitable and scientists had been warning about either that or Zika virus in Rio for some time, I just ignored that and went over to CNN... Even though it looked exactly like the other ad, I figured that CNN was putting out a documentary on magical dragons, like they did with the unicorns and Sasquatch, but then I noticed "DAZ", so I figured anything was possible and maybe it was a challenge and if I could figure out what the hell they really meant I'd get a discount or 10% off of something new that I don't want, so I was immediately up to that idea and jumped on it without thinking it through completely.
Really, I'm quite hurt by this... Not just because I woke up with a sharp pork chop sticking out of my forehead or because I slid off the table onto the my friend's porcupine that I had been porcupine sitting, but because not checking the spelling in your ads, while often hilarious, is quite dangerous... If I had fallen two inches to the left I could have landed on my collection of Noanamá Chocó limited edition poison arrows and or the bowl of colorful poison dart frogs I was using to keep the arrows nice and deadly... But it's not just that... Proof reading is a vital and serious responsibility. Not for me, I never look back at anything I write... Who would?... But DAZ3D is a bastion of sanity in a crazy world and some people rely on it to make sense of life and if they are going to just throw caution to the wind and write out ads on an iPad and let autocorrect make up whatever it sees fit, without double checking it, then maybe my faith in them has been misplaced... Or I hit my head harder than I thought... Or that pork chop bone poked out some import brain cells... Or perhaps this is one of the symptoms of Mad Porcupine Disease... Whatever, the fact remains that proofreading is not just a luxury for wealthy illiterate writers who can't spell... It's a responsibility... like using environmentally friendly polygons in your content or not juggling chainsaws in church... yeah, I should probably have someone in the medical profession pull this pork chop out... Every time I move it that orange guy with the toupee starts to make sense... (I think he is a really tall Oompa Loompa...?)
Back in the 20s this country learned a valuable lesson about not proofreading in the "Great Grandpa Tragedy of 1921". Most of us are too old or too young or to dumb to remember how the simple children's book "Lunch with Grandpa" lead to thousands of innocent grandfathers being feasted on by their confused grandchildren, all for want of a simple comma... "Let's eat Grandpa!"... And so they did... Sure they meant "Let's eat, Grandpa!", but for many confused and impulsive children teetering on the edge of canibalism, that was all they needed... Must we have another tragedy like that? What does it take for a simple set of human eyeballs to just read over an ad before something tragically funny can occur?... I suppose the ability to read and spell, but I was assuming they were not employing people like me... I think we need to stop handing over in blind faith, important tasks like these to spellcheckers, autocorrect-o-trons and evil proofreader robots.
Please DAZ, let this serve as a reminder of the responsibility you bear as a secret world power broker and arms dealer masquerading as a 3D software and content store... Please do not let your minions down.
I don't think anyone should be fired for this either... A simple forty or fifty lashes with nine cats swung by the tails... Or whatever the Romans used to do... That will keep the offending parties on their toes and avoid having to hire a new person who could potentially make the same mistake or worse.
Well... I'm having trouble focusing with this pork chop sticking out of my forehead, so I'm gonna go get it removed, but most likely become impatient and do something stupid and risky that will make matters exponentially worse.
Peace and bacon y'all's... Later.
Pssst, it's cromulent.
Can't we just talk about performant ad agencies?
I got correkted for a bad on my youtubes
so I delibberately left him up their just two pitz peeple of.
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I no speek gud and prowd uv it!
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Seriously, the English language has been dying since the introduction of chat rooms (lol, brb, roflmao etc...) and texting has just killed it. My inner child/adult/grammar nazi screams in pain when I see how people (particularly kids) text these days. People say it’s the ‘evolution’ of the language, but from observation, it just plain laziness, sloppy, and lack of respect for other people to bother putting in the effort to spell properly.
Seeing people use ‘rediculous’ instead of the proper ‘ridiculous’ is one that drives me insane. Honestly, can’t people take a minute to fire up Word or something similar and type out what you want to say and at least let it check your spelling and grammar before you post and embarrass yourself?
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Ok… better now… sorry about that… (phew)…
The rampant degradation of the framework of English is but another symptom of our times. I observe in daily activities the degradation of all frameworks; once, rules provided a structure that underpinned society. Now, rules are to be ignored, un-learned, and deliberately broken in the name of freedom and individuality.
Very well put. It's become an 'anything-goes', 'don't tell me what to do' world.
that's the UK spelling I think.
and spell check is no help with either of those! Dang you Daz and your bass-akwards website!
"Mistakes happen." "It's all good." Marvelous rationalizations for the times. I'm sure the 13th Century was a poster child for rampant ignorance but don't worry, at the rate we're devolving we'll be back there in no time, which will make some people feel right at home.
Same here, seeing that that makes me want to pull my hair out. I have friends who speak English as a second language and speak it better than many native speakers I hear these days.
And yes, that ad needs to be changed, that's embarrassing.
Half the problem is that people don't spell words according to the rules, or pronounce or enunciate them well, because they don't read enough and only practice their local dialect.
Think about the spoken difference between these words in your dialect: Berry, Bury, Barry. In my local dialect they're all the same as the last one. Sure, in spoken context one can figure out the meaning but when people start spelling "bury" when they meant "berry" or "live" instead of "life" one might as well have a tattoo "STUPID" written across his forehead.
And God save us from the people who speak in hyperdrive never letting a thought interfere with their mouth.
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyI1gxQU17I or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxCPj40eFNc
You should see the crimes against the English language perpetrated by the local TV news web site. I've given up on trying to get them to correct spelling, punctuation, and verb/noun agreement. And they used to be owned by, and are still affiliated with, a major university here.
As for spelling - too many people are more than happy to take the first suggestion from the auto-correct process (see tagline; anyone got a suggestion for 'faith' in it?).
In my parents and kins old Appalachian dialect (sounds like some lost old English dialect), berry and Barry sound pretty much the same and rhymes with airy (airee) but bury sounds very different, and rhymes with exaggeratedly German word Uhr with the u stretched out and so is buuhrree or better for English speakers, like bur in sand bur or rhyms with spur, buurree. There are others words they do pronunciation alterations with too like there, their, they're and they generally avoid avoid spoken constructs that are confusing.
Same dialect here - Answer the following - what word is a fruit, a verb, and a man's name?
There are no words that fit that description and that is fitting given the theme of this thread.
My local newspaper chain got rid of a good chunk of their copy editors, which means a bunch of their articles have hilarious typos everywhere. It's disheartening.
it'll all be ok...