FAIL!

Professor Knowall

I'm not a grammar nazi.. (well, ok a little bit!) but check out the way 'Immitator' has been spelled on this website....

http://www.patrickgildea.ie/

Someone should really tell the guy. I would, but I am enjoying this too much...

homer simpson

What's to enjoy about (probably) a web design company misspelling a word on a website for one of the counties best businessmen?

Professor Knowall

Really don't expect everyone to get this.

It is intended for those who like to write or women who no longer attend the PG salons.

I should have written [sic] after 'immitator' or some will think that I can't spell either! (imitate me not!)

Immitator and Immatator on one website. While a typing error can be overlooked a mistake made due to stupidity is priceless.

Again, this will go over some of your heads. Humour and grammar aren't everyone's 'thing'....

danniemcq

I'm pretty sure humour is most peoples thing

fasttalkerchat

"Patrick Gildea Hairdressing Team,
A Name which has become synonymous with quality and excellent in innovative Hairdressing since opening in 1988"

(excellence)

danniemcq

also the fact that its an image would seem to say that it wasn't the web designers fault. They were probably given a CD (actually knowing business a floppy disk) of material that they had to use.

The design was signed off on and boom web designers look like prats when it might not have been their fault.

well know i've ate shot and left*





*attempt at a play on a certain book that grammer nazi's will know

Professor Knowall

danniemcq wrote: »

also the fact that its an image would seem to say that it wasn't the web designers fault. They were probably given a CD (actually knowing business a floppy disk) of material that they had to use.

The design was signed off on and boom web designers look like prats when it might not have been their fault.

well know i've ate shot and left*





*attempt at a play on a certain book that grammer nazi's will know

I had forgotten that book! It must be ten years since it was first published. Lynne Truss was a hero

jmark

It gets worse - check out the wig page:

http://www.patrickgildea.ie/wigs/index.html

How many errors can you count?

fullstop

jmark wrote: »

It gets worse - check out the wig page:

http://www.patrickgildea.ie/wigs/index.html

How many errors can you count?

That's pretty amateurish.

fasttalkerchat

To be fair it looks like something they threw together themselves. Not bad for a hairdresser!

implausible

It's beyond me why businesses spend time and money putting websites, publications and signs up and don't ask someone who can spell to look over them for a few minutes.

A few years ago Highland Radio were advertising on the scrolling neon sign you can see from the station roundabout in Letterkenny: "advertise your buisness with us"....em.....not if you can't spell business.....:rolleyes:

And don't get me started on the local free paper - most of the ads look like they were proofread by an eight year old!

golden lane

implausible wrote: »

It's beyond me why businesses spend time and money putting websites, publications and signs up and don't ask someone who can spell to look over them for a few minutes.

A few years ago Highland Radio were advertising on the scrolling neon sign you can see from the station roundabout in Letterkenny: "advertise your buisness with us"....em.....not if you can't spell business.....:rolleyes:

maybe they spelled the latin........rebuis..

cosanostra

I'm sure they're glad of the spelling mistakes now with all the hits they're getting

retalivity

implausible wrote: »

And don't get me started on the local free paper - most of the ads look like they were proofread by an eight year old!

There is also a county-wide paper which is/was prone to this, particularly a 'connected' reporter who has since 'moved on'.
I understand not everyone has perfect grammar, and within donegal itself there are plenty of examples of colloquialisms and the like, but being a paid professional making mistakes that an eight year old wouldn't make is a disgrace.

juan.kerr

Professor Knowall wrote: »

Again, this will go over some of your heads. Humour and grammar aren't everyone's 'thing'....

I wish a bin would go over your head...might shut you up, Mr. Knowall.

Vic Vinegar

juan.kerr wrote: »

I wish a bin would go over your head...might shut you up, Mr. Knowall.

What does that even mean?

muffler

juan.kerr wrote: »

I wish a bin would go over your head...might shut you up, Mr. Knowall.

Warning given. Any more of this and I wont be as lenient.

Penfailed

danniemcq wrote: »

*attempt at a play on a certain book that grammer nazi's will know

I sea what you did their...;)

jmark

Penfailed wrote: »

I sea what you did their...;)

Genious, I had mist that

muffler

and I didnt no what he ment

Penfailed

summerdreamn

Oooh, i love me a good grammar nazi. More, more! I especially love the Irish proclivity for should/could/would OF. It drives me B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

Monkeybonkers

summerdreamn wrote: »

Oooh, i love me a good grammar nazi. More, more! I especially love the Irish proclivity for should/could/would OF. It drives me B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

Nothing is as bad though as being called a 'looser', or indeed any time 'lose' is spelled with two o's.
AAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! This drives me nuts :mad::mad::mad::mad:
I saw 'lose' spelled with two o's recently in an online survey. Unforgiveable mistake

homer simpson

summerdreamn wrote: »

Oooh, i love me a good grammar nazi. More, more! I especially love the Irish proclivity for should/could/would OF. It drives me B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

Nothing is as bad though as being called a 'looser', or indeed any time 'lose' is spelled with two o's.
AAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! This drives me nuts :mad::mad::mad::mad:
I saw 'lose' spelled with two o's recently in an online survey. Unforgiveable mistake

Take it to the grammar nazi forum please!

danniemcq

homer_simpson wrote: »

Take it to the grammar nazi forum please!

sh*t i'd listen to him, he sounds like he's about to loose his temper