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Location: Carpenter, WY | I think maybe it annoy's us old farts the most because I remember spending hours in English class learning the difference between sell, sale, their, there and getting my knuckles thumped when I got it wrong. Simply put, there was a correct way and a incorrect way to use and spell the words and not much tolerance for the incorrect way. This was back in the day where people wrote letters to communicate though because the internet, FB and all the other ways we communicate now hadn't been invented yet I'm sorry, but when I see some word used or spelled the wrong way, especially in the day and age of spell check, it's a turn off for me.
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| teehaha - 2013-12-01 1:14 PM
I think maybe it annoy's us old farts the most because I remember spending hours in English class learning the difference between sell, sale, their, there and getting my knuckles thumped when I got it wrong. Simply put, there was a correct way and a incorrect way to use and spell the words and not much tolerance for the incorrect way. This was back in the day where people wrote letters to communicate though because the internet, FB and all the other ways we communicate now hadn't been invented yet I'm sorry, but when I see some word used or spelled the wrong way, especially in the day and age of spell check, it's a turn off for me.
Annoys not annoy's! LOL.
confirmation/conformation
your/you're
An animal is "by" the stud
An animal is "out of" the mare
And the list goes on and on and on
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Location: Oklahoma | This isn't meant to be mean, but if we're picking on spelling (I was an AF journalist and can appreciate your frustration!) then shouldn't the title be BHN needs and editor "who" can spell. Using "that" implies a non-person. Then again, who knows who or what the editor is? :) |
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Location: Texas | I have always had a problem with the grammar and spelling in that magazine. Sometimes I'll start on an article and it will get so bad I'll just give up and start flipping pages lol |
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Location: Texas Big Country | long ago and far, far away, I used to work for a fair sized respected horse magazine. We had one get past every person on staff. On the spine of the mag one month we had in print ______ Hose News. I think 3 people caught it. We were very embarrassed. |
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Living on the edge of common sense
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Location: Carpenter, WY | BMW - 2013-12-01 11:42 AM teehaha - 2013-12-01 1:14 PM I think maybe it annoy's us old farts the most because I remember spending hours in English class learning the difference between sell, sale, their, there and getting my knuckles thumped when I got it wrong. Simply put, there was a correct way and a incorrect way to use and spell the words and not much tolerance for the incorrect way. This was back in the day where people wrote letters to communicate though because the internet, FB and all the other ways we communicate now hadn't been invented yet I'm sorry, but when I see some word used or spelled the wrong way, especially in the day and age of spell check, it's a turn off for me.
Annoys not annoy's! LOL. confirmation/conformation your/you're An animal is "by" the stud An animal is "out of" the mare And the list goes on and on and on Major magazine error-yes it's a big mistake!
better turn the spell check on!
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Location: Northeast Nebraska | 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?
A typo means the EDITOR was not doing their job. The PROOFREADER, you know, the person in charge of catching errors? What they are PAID to do. I will never forget the day my youngest came home and said "spelling doesn't count in reports." I said the hell it doesn't. This same "teacher" sent home a note that said "J's handrighting is needing to be improved." |
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Location: Western performance horse Hades | GoGaited - 2013-12-01 2:11 PM 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? A typo means the EDITOR was not doing their job. The PROOFREADER, you know, the person in charge of catching errors? What they are PAID to do. I will never forget the day my youngest came home and said "spelling doesn't count in reports." I said the hell it doesn't. This same "teacher" sent home a note that said "J's handrighting is needing to be improved."
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | GoGaited - 2013-12-01 3:11 PM 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? A typo means the EDITOR was not doing their job. The PROOFREADER, you know, the person in charge of catching errors? What they are PAID to do. I will never forget the day my youngest came home and said "spelling doesn't count in reports." I said the hell it doesn't. This same "teacher" sent home a note that said "J's handrighting is needing to be improved." 
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Three 4 Luck - 2013-12-01 8:02 AM 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.
I agree with this. I have always heard phonics was the better way. |
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Location: Nebraska | Not only are magazines publishing horrible grammar and spelling mistakes, but so are our textbooks. How are people supposed to know the difference when it is written poorly in a textbook of all things? One of my nursing school textbooks is so bad, I can't even read it. I crossed out 3 spelling/grammar errors in the first paragraph! |
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Location: Jersey Girl | I haven't even gotten mine yet.... |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | fulltiltfilly - 2013-12-01 3:52 PM I haven't even gotten mine yet....
I haven't received mine either but when I do, I'm going to seal that sucker up because it'll be worth something some day after this post. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Fairweather - 2013-12-01 4:09 PM fulltiltfilly - 2013-12-01 3:52 PM I haven't even gotten mine yet.... I haven't received mine either but when I do, I'm going to seal that sucker up because it'll be worth something some day after this post.
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Location: Kansas | I can remember reading an article on Martha Josey's website. She said something like if your horse is injured you are basically a foot. This should, I believe, be afoot. I e-mailed her and pointed out the error stating a foot is what you put your sock on and afoot would be the proper lingo. I got no reply.....probably only served to annoy her.
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Location: SE Louisiana | hotpaints - 2013-12-01 7:45 AM
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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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Komet - 2013-12-01 6:00 PM hotpaints - 2013-12-01 7:45 AM 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! I think they do it just to screw with RWR...
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Location: Mountains of VA | witt - 2013-12-01 11:25 AM It's all about the details......What else are they missing??? Just my opinion.
When we send text, emails, etc., we are not getting paid. When ANY magazine or newspaper goes to print, they should be held to a higher standard not just in grammer, spelling, etc. but in the factual correctness of the context.
I enjoy the BHN and have always looked forward to each issue BUT there have been SO MANY mistakes that I wonder who is proof reading.
Attention to details is what sets us apart. Just ask any professional in any type of business. |
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