I know some people see it as bad form to comment on people's spelling or grammar on forums, but if you're making a flyer - something that's supposed to represent your organisation/event and to be read by a reasonable number of people, then please, please get someone with a reading age older than eight to proof-read the thing. Mistakes this obvious just make stuff look massively amateurish and embarrassing, which I'm sure isn't what anyone would want.
I know some people see it as bad form to comment on people's spelling or grammar on forums... blah, blah, blah.
I despair too. I despair that so many people have never heard of Muphry's Law*.
Before you criticise the grammar or spelling of someone else please take a look at your own. You understand the difference between an apostrophe and a quotation mark right? One is used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else or, generally in the past tense, to oneself. The other is used to indicate possession, contractions, and plurals.
Disclaimer: No doubt McKean** will be knocking at my door at some point.
* Muphry's Law: If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written. ** McKean's Law: Any correction of the speech or writing of others will contain at least one grammatical, spelling, or typographical error.
Hmmm...what exactly is a "megamix"?? Last time I heard that term used, it was used to describe a bunch of songs mixed together. Is that what we're talking about here?
Megamix:
A megamix is a medley remix containing multiple songs in rapid succession.
DJShadesUK wrote:I despair too. I despair that so many people have never heard of Muphry's Law*.
Before you criticise the grammar or spelling of someone else please take a look at your own. You understand the difference between an apostrophe and a quotation mark right? One is used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else or, generally in the past tense, to oneself. The other is used to indicate possession, contractions, and plurals.
I use apostrophes as single quotation marks often, in informal writing - like messageboard posts.
Doing that doesn't completely change the meaning of what is being written.
Adding apostrophes where they shouldn't be does completely change the meaning of what is being written. Not to mention the fact that it's part of a poster - prominently displayed with the intention of being seen by lots of people.
I'm not expecting everyone to have passable grammar/spelling skills, but surely if you're writing something on behalf of an organisation or event that you want to be taken seriously, then you'd at least do a 30-second google search, or ask a friend who went to school if anything needs changing?
Plus, the more people who balls up apostrophes, or grammar in general, on signs, posters, websites etc, means people who aren't great at English will read it thinking it's correct.
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So to clarify - I don't want to personally offend anyone. Everyone has differing abilities, but if you're making something & you want to give a good impression, just double-check that it says what you want it to say.
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