How many mistakes are acceptable in a sentence? Zero? One? Two? Three? That’s what seems to be okie-dokie over at Yahoo! Style, where the writer misspelled French Riviera, used the wrong preposition in what should be arriving at, and banged out dressed instead of dress:
In baseball, that would be three strikes, sending the batter to the dugout. I wonder where Yahoo! sends its writers who strike out. Oh, yeah. Yahoo! sends them to their next writing assignment.
May 23, 2015 at 2:04 pm
Reblogged this on rennydiokno.com.
May 24, 2015 at 7:06 am
Thanks for the reblog
May 23, 2015 at 9:58 pm
Zero mistakes are acceptable especially in a forum like Yahoo! Are those typos or spellcheck errors?
May 24, 2015 at 7:10 am
Judging from the number of misspellings that appear every day, I don’t believe that Yahoo writers use a spell checker. A spell-checker wouldn’t catch “arriving to,” which is a common error made by Yahoo writers — especially Yahoo Style writers. I think these are all just human errors that go undetected and uncorrected.
May 24, 2015 at 4:33 pm
A simple spell check would definitely help (it would at least make me feel better. 🙂
May 25, 2015 at 8:10 am
Yup. I can’t believe they don’t have an automatic spell-checker that highlights potential misspellings.
July 3, 2015 at 8:30 pm
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