Choice of instrument aside, I don’t know if I want to take lessons from someone who can’t spell “beginner” consistently.
Is this sort of thing more common than it used to be or am I just getting old and cranky? It’s as though people don’t read over what they have written even once! I can understand errors in forums like this where we are just chatting, etc. I make plenty here. But I see mistakes so often in documents and in ads like this. The idea that poor spelling or typographical errors diminish one’s authority seems to have passed out of existence.
It really does, for me, take the focus away from the message, and onto the faulty communication.
It is shocking when copywriters and signwriters make mistakes - but spare a thought for the poor guy I saw on TV this morning who had had an inspiring verse tattooed on his back, with TWO spelling mistakes in it.
Probably a little of both 
And it’s not like this was a mistake that woudn’t have been caught by a
spellchecker. I think the thing that makes this situation even worse is
that people can now make such professional-looking ad copy, without
having to bother with any actual professionalism.
I had a coworker who was trying to start giving guitar lessons. He
showed me a very nice flyer that he was going to post at music shops,
and I immediately underlined 3 gramatical errors and 2 spelling errors.
I think he was a bit insulted, but I wouldn’t have gone to a teacher who
couldn’t even bother to proofread a paragraph.
Amen, brother. I think this was why I could never get into comic
books as a kid: I couldn’t get through more than 5 word balloons
without throwing up my hands in grammer-induced frustration
(which I followed up with very grammatical swearing).
Utter carelessness definitely gets annoying. I’m thinking more of the every-once-in-a-while sort of mistake, I guess. I do read over what I’ve written here, but not as rigorously as I would do in some situations I suppose.
Well, I hope he has the errors corrected! I suppose they can’t very well just be erased. I wonder if a non-permanent rough draft could be done and then proof-read by some agreed-upon person before the final tattooing takes place? I’d insist on it.
But, actually, the most interesting idea, for me, is the one of you sitting and watching the tattooed back of a man on TV 
! Talk about exciting!
I may be wrong, but it looks like one of those cheap Chinese wheezeboxes to me. Might explain the typo?
This ad beggs the question.
I couldn’t agree more. Personally I read everything over at least three times before hitting “send.” I can’t bear to think that anything I post to a forum of thousands of people may contain even the slightest misteak.
And it begger’s belief.
I know! I know! I misspelled “misspelled”. But I have it now. I’m just too scared to use it. In case I misspell it. That would be a dreadful misteak.
He’s planning to, but unfortunately the tattoo parlour he went to are now saying he OK’d the text. He begs to differ. He is coloured, and the text is in very black ink, so the errors may be impossibly to remove without leaving obvious marks, even through laser surgery.
Morning TV. I’m usually not fully awake until 11am. 
I get dozy again around 11:15am.
Passing a pub restaurant the other day “Pealla” was the special of the day. We gave it a miss!
But the spelling error is only a shadow behind the real problem: it’s about freakin accordion!!! What’s next, harmonica?
And Azalin knows exactly what I mean by that… 
Hehehehe!!!
Shhhhh!