You know what would be better than this from Yahoo! Screen‘s “Daily Shot”? If the writer had taken the time to learn how to spell Steve Carell’s name. And if the writer had taken the time to figure out how to write a link:
You’d think that someone working for one of the biggest Internet companies in the world would know how to do both.
Anyone who lived in the States in the ’70s and owned a television is familiar with this ditty:
My bologna has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R.
My bologna has a second name, it’s M-A-Y-E-R.
Oh I love to eat it every day. If you ask me why I’ll say,
‘Cause Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A.
So, I’m guessin’ that the writer for Yahoo! Shine grew up in Somalia or Djibouti or Mumbai or some place where they’re unlikely to eat Oscar Mayer meats or see the Wienermobile:
How great a job is this!? You write about shoes for Yahoo! Shopping and you don’t have to know anything about shoes:
Well, maybe you do have to know something. You just don’t have to know how to spell the brand Skechers.
Was the writer for yahoo.com thinking of astronaut Alan Shepard or playwright Sam Shepard when writing this?
The dog breed is German shepherd.
Any self-respecting writer or editor would be embarrassed to have made this misspelling on the Yahoo! front page:
Many writers believe that infamous is a synonym for famous. It’s not. But they naively use that word without understanding its connotation. And nowhere do writers use it incorrectly more than on Yahoo!.
Now staffers at Yahoo! News have come up with a new infamous mistake:
Apparently Yahoo!’s writers aren’t the only ones who believe that’s a real word. It’s common enough to appear in the Urban Dictionary, which defines imfamous as “When idiots try to spell ‘infamous’ but get it wrong.”
So, you finally landed a job writing for a big, hot-shot Internet company. Your mother must be so proud to see what you’re producing for Yahoo! Shine! Unless, of course, she’s like my mother. In that case she’d be appalled to see that you don’t know compliment from complement and that you think pharaoh is a proper noun:
She’d be mortified to think that you put an apostrophe in the plural Kardashians:
She’d be ashamed to realize that you didn’t bother to research Wilson Phillips and Chynna Phillips — just so you got the spelling right:
If your mother is like mine, she’d be grateful that you have a job — and that this article doesn’t have a byline.
Proving that they are equal opportunity when it comes to misspelling names, the writers at Yahoo! Shine come up with an unusual spelling of Phillip Garrido’s name:
Showing a definite lack of respect for the wife of the president, the writer for Yahoo! Shine misspells Michelle Obama’s name:
If you can’t be right, at least be consistent. That seems to be the philosophy over at Yahoo! Movies, where the “experts” in cinema can’t spell “Inside Llewyn Davis” in a caption here:
Or in the headline for a related article:
The writers and editors may be wrong, but at least they’re consistent.
