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Location: Mountains of VA | This problem is much greater than a personal pet peeve. LOOK at the COVER!! Since when is a spelling error allowed on the COVER of a National Magazine??? O.K. so the word should be lateral but is LATERNAL!! WTH
Call me old fashioned, but heads should roll over this. Maybe some of you, especially young people, think this is no big deal since most young people can no longer spell correctly either nor can they recognize when a word is misused.. My 20 something daughter tends to spell using phonics and has never learned to spell correctly, so I can understand the problems that some young people have. BUT a Magazine?? C'mon Man! |
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I Need a Xanax!
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| I learned to spell using phonics too and I am a TERRIBLE speller and so are most others my age(32) it seems! Evidently phonics does NOT work! My sister is 5 years older than I am and didn't learn using phonics and she can spell great. Pretty pathetic that nobody caught the mispelling on the cover of a big magazine like that. |
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| I saw it too. I was hoping we were all going to learn something new! But alas, it was just spelled wrong! |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | Sometimes when I'm trying to read those annoying crawls along the bottom of the tv screen I see some incredible spelling errors.
I read a western paperback one time where the hero picked a mare out the remuda to ride down the mountainside then later as he picked his way through the rocks sweat was glistening off the neck of the great stallion. Later when all he had was a six-gun to fight off the bad guys suddenly his rifle was out of shells and he was in real trouble. Good grief. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Used2B - 2013-12-01 8:24 AM
I learned to spell using phonics too and I am a TERRIBLE speller and so are most others my age(32) it seems! Evidently phonics does NOT work! My sister is 5 years older than I am and didn't learn using phonics and she can spell great. Pretty pathetic that nobody caught the mispelling on the cover of a big magazine like that.
 I had phonics and am a good speller. My daddy didn't have phonics and cannot spell to save his life. I don't think you can blame it on phonics or lack there-of...some people can spell and some can't. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Frodo - 2013-12-01 8:37 AM
Sometimes when I'm trying to read those annoying crawls along the bottom of the tv screen I see some incredible spelling errors.  Â
I read a western paperback one time where the hero picked a mare out the remuda to ride down the mountainside then later as he picked his way through the rocks sweat was glistening off the neck of the great stallion. Later when all he had was a six-gun to fight off the bad guys suddenly his rifle was out of shells and he was in real trouble. Good grief.Â
 A lot of the free and 99 cent ebooks are full of crap like that. Some of them are actually good stories, but so poorly written and edited that the errors ruin the whole thing. |
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Location: Gonzales texas | The least they could've done is use SPELLCHECK !!! All those layouts are surely done on computer nowadays!! |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I love having a magazine that's strictly barrel racing info to read every month. I need all the help and tips I can get.  |
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Location: Gonzales texas | CYA Ranch - 2013-12-01 9:44 AM
I love having a magazine that's strictly barrel racing info to read every month. I need all the help and tips I can get. Â
Yes it really is a good magazine!! I enjoy it and look forward to each issue. I bet someone fainted when they realized the error! |
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| Has anyone seen the movie Friends With Benefits with Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis? My favorite quote from the movie...
Jamie: Girl, you are preaching to the congregation.
Dylan: Choir.
Jamie: What?
Dylan: Preaching to the choir. You're supposed to preach to the congregation. That's the expression.
Jamie: Did you understand what I'm saying? Then don't be a d**k about it.
LOL. Sorry, yeah that was a pretty huge mistake for a national publication, but we knew what they meant. I'm going to bet it won't happen again. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | CYA Ranch - 2013-12-01 9:44 AM I love having a magazine that's strictly barrel racing info to read every month. I need all the help and tips I can get.
I've written articles that have been published and have finished a couple of books. I'll be honest, I really don't get the spelling nazis of the world. And quite frankly don't get cattiness of this post. I'm sure the person that was responsible was probably already mortified and now they just feel crucified. And for what?
As a consumer, I could care less if the front cover has a typo. What I care about and what I'm paying for is the QUALITY of the information that's being conveyed, not whether or not it's spelled right. I'm intelligent enough to figure out the difference between "Lateral" and "Laternal" and what they're trying to relay.
When I submit my work for publication, I try to make sure I catch all the errors. I know that it doesn't look good to have typos and so I try my best to avoid those. I've never looked down my nose at someone else's work for having a spelling error or typo. We all make those kinds of mistakes. They're easy to make and they're easy to correct but what you can't correct is poor writing that has no substance to begin with.
I love my BHN regardless of whether or not something is spelled wrong. I don't buy it for the spelling anyhow. I hope they keep their editor and the staff they already have because I'm happy with them just the way they are.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Just shows that they are human too just like the rest of us. Nobody is perfect. I think we all know what they were saying.  |
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| Fairweather - 2013-12-01 10:33 AM CYA Ranch - 2013-12-01 9:44 AM I love having a magazine that's strictly barrel racing info to read every month. I need all the help and tips I can get.
I've written articles that have been published and have finished a couple of books. I'll be honest, I really don't get the spelling nazis of the world. And quite frankly don't get cattiness of this post. I'm sure the person that was responsible was probably already mortified and now they just feel crucified. And for what?
As a consumer, I could care less if the front cover has a typo. What I care about and what I'm paying for is the QUALITY of the information that's being conveyed, not whether or not it's spelled right. I'm intelligent enough to figure out the difference between "Lateral" and "Laternal" and what they're trying to relay.
When I submit my work for publication, I try to make sure I catch all the errors. I know that it doesn't look good to have typos and so I try my best to avoid those. I've never looked down my nose at someone else's work for having a spelling error or typo. We all make those kinds of mistakes. They're easy to make and they're easy to correct but what you can't correct is poor writing that has no substance to begin with.
I love my BHN regardless of whether or not something is spelled wrong. I don't buy it for the spelling anyhow. I hope they keep their editor and the staff they already have because I'm happy with them just the way they are.
Catiness? I didn't find it catty, I am with the OP and lament the days when people were truly educated and not just processed through a school system where "feelings" are more important than performance. |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | I agree with you, hotpaints. I just think if the written word is your profession (magazines, books, newspapers, etc.) the bar should be much higher. I don't expect as much from posts on a forum.
I read a really nice looking barrel racing book recently that was full of typos. It is distracting. I know there are different types of publishing where authors can choose whether to have their work reviewed or not. I just wish they were required to note it on the cover. I honestly would not have gotten the book if I'd known. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | So a typo means that someone is poorly educated and illiterate?
It's been said that Albert Einstein couldn't tie his shoes. Does that mean he's not intelligent? |
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| It's all about the details......What else are they missing??? Just my opinion. |
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Location: Way up North | The issue with spelling is it's based on memorizing and using "rules" that only apply less than half the time. Add in the fact that the eye sees what it thinks it should and there in lies the issue of spelling errors. I am willing to bet they read it 30 times and their brain just kept telling them it was lateral and not laternal because that's what they expected it to be. It's a good reminder to have someone out of the loop proof read one last time because they will have fresh eyes.
Also, a few of the people on this thread that want to crucify the editors for a spelling mistake could use a few lessons in grammar usage. |
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Location: oklahoma | Fairweather - 2013-12-01 11:06 AM So a typo means that someone is poorly educated and illiterate?
It's been said that Albert Einstein couldn't tie his shoes. Does that mean he's not intelligent?
No, but in a world of spellcheck on every computer, it means someone doesn't care enough. Pride in ones work is often absent nowadays. I don't have a dog and don't even get bhn anymore, just my .02 and it's not even worth that in today's economy. |
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Location: Stuck in a cubicle having tropical thoughts | This is not the only mistake they make. My pet peeve that BHN screws up is when talking about bloodlines and they don't use "by" and "out of" correctly. For one particular horse, they used the same terminology for both the sire and the dam and I was so confused afterwards I had no idea what this elite horse's pedigree really was.
They are in the business of publishing a national magazine. Correct spelling should be at the top of the list to get things correct. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | kmcsunshine - 2013-12-01 10:53 AM Fairweather - 2013-12-01 10:33 AM CYA Ranch - 2013-12-01 9:44 AM I love having a magazine that's strictly barrel racing info to read every month. I need all the help and tips I can get.
I've written articles that have been published and have finished a couple of books. I'll be honest, I really don't get the spelling nazis of the world. And quite frankly don't get cattiness of this post. I'm sure the person that was responsible was probably already mortified and now they just feel crucified. And for what?
As a consumer, I could care less if the front cover has a typo. What I care about and what I'm paying for is the QUALITY of the information that's being conveyed, not whether or not it's spelled right. I'm intelligent enough to figure out the difference between "Lateral" and "Laternal" and what they're trying to relay.
When I submit my work for publication, I try to make sure I catch all the errors. I know that it doesn't look good to have typos and so I try my best to avoid those. I've never looked down my nose at someone else's work for having a spelling error or typo. We all make those kinds of mistakes. They're easy to make and they're easy to correct but what you can't correct is poor writing that has no substance to begin with.
I love my BHN regardless of whether or not something is spelled wrong. I don't buy it for the spelling anyhow. I hope they keep their editor and the staff they already have because I'm happy with them just the way they are.
I'm sorry but I agree....I don't see any "cattiness" nor do I see where they have pointed out that they were uneducated........All I see is.... it a FACT that it was this person's JOB to proof read the copy and they didn't DO their job effectively. With "spell check", there shouldn't be any excuses....... |
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