Dpreview needs a proofreader

[adegroot]

I am surprised by the many typos in articles published by dpreview; nobody does spell check or proofreading anymore?

 

[Cane]

You have obviously nominated yourself as captain of the spelling police, so stay vigilant! I wish you good luck in your new post.

As we all know, the only thing worse than improper grammar is 'that guy' that feels the need to point it out.

 

[Glenn NK]

What really surprises me are the same errors (and much worse) made by native English speakers.

their = they're = there

Three totally different meanings, but one word is often used (there).

There are errors in some of the DPR articles, but they pale by comparison (not pail) to those regularly committed by native English speakers.

 

[Ed B]

I am surprised by the many typos in articles published by dpreview; nobody does spell check or proofreading anymore?

It's a sign of the times.

News articles, news papers and 99.9% of the blogs posted to the Internet are written by people who either have no grasp of the English language or who simply don't care.

Many college graduates can't read at anything above a fifth grade level, can't tell time using an analog clock and can't write cursive.

When words (non-words) like "anyways" have become acceptable, all is lost. :-D

 

[crashpc]

We are at the age of productivity at all costs. This means obvious things: As you understand to a point that it doesn´t do any real damage, and all people are paid to their official rate, everything is good even it actually is not.

This has good side effect, and bad side effect. Good is, that we focus on real things and we actually get faster and still about 100% usable results and also greater amounts of stuff produced for shorter time with less effort. This sounds like good management. However we are not machines. We must find reasons behind our actions and decisions. Those reasons such as joy and pleasure from really perfect work, some honor and natural things like will to do things better. These suffer and it is not good.

But as everything has a reason, so has this. If you don´t like what you see, report it and try to help and contribute. You can start your career with perfect writing about technicall stuff. I tried, and I´m not going to do that again. Only thing you will be able to look back for, will be just your honor. Nobody will shake your hand for it and say how good you are. You will be judged mostly for your mistakes and flaws.

From what I´ve seen, I must agree that there is some quality downswing in this aspect on DPR. I felt that even when my language is not that good and I´m not native speaker. But I believe all data from review has been transmitted in a way that we still receive 100% of what should have been told/written.

So please: I´m tremendously happy that you care. I do too. But don´t go further and don´t be grammar ****.

 

[donaldsc]

Add to that a total inability to do proper punctuation and also the fact that people send things from cell phones. I would love to be an English teacher. I would be fired after 1 or 2 days on the job but it would be a fun couple of days. I was actually temporarily banned from another blog for pointing out really bad writing in posts.

Look up the book Eats, Shoots and Leaves. It is a real book.

In addition, people depend upon spell checkers which can give really hilarious or pathetic results to posts.

This problem occurs in many other places in life today. For example, I have at times worked on election teams. At times I was a team leader for a polling place. When the county election department purchased new voting machines, they described the features of the new machines in a newspaper announcement. One of the features of the machines was that they had 2 vote counters - a total vote counter and a public vote counter to ensure the accuracy of the vote count. It is not important for the purposes of this post to detail why there were 2 counters.

The problem was that they left the letter "l" out of the word "public" so the article said that one of the features of the new machines was that they had a "pubic" counter. I wonder how many "pubics" they counted?

--
Don

 

[Ed B]

We are at the age of productivity at all costs. This means obvious things: As you understand to a point that it doesn´t do any real damage, and all people are paid to their official rate, everything is good even it actually is not.

This has good side effect, and bad side effect. Good is, that we focus on real things and we actually get faster and still about 100% usable results and also greater amounts of stuff produced for shorter time with less effort. This sounds like good management. However we are not machines. We must find reasons behind our actions and decisions. Those reasons such as joy and pleasure from really perfect work, some honor and natural things like will to do things better. These suffer and it is not good.

But as everything has a reason, so has this. If you don´t like what you see, report it and try to help and contribute. You can start your career with perfect writing about technicall stuff. I tried, and I´m not going to do that again. Only thing you will be able to look back for, will be just your honor. Nobody will shake your hand for it and say how good you are. You will be judged mostly for your mistakes and flaws.

From what I´ve seen, I must agree that there is some quality downswing in this aspect on DPR. I felt that even when my language is not that good and I´m not native speaker. But I believe all data from review has been transmitted in a way that we still receive 100% of what should have been told/written.

So please: I´m tremendously happy that you care. I do too. But don´t go further and don´t be grammar ****.

--
Why does he do it?

Oh, I never said I care. I only stated a couple of facts.

 

[crashpc]

We are at the age of productivity at all costs. This means obvious things: As you understand to a point that it doesn´t do any real damage, and all people are paid to their official rate, everything is good even it actually is not.

This has good side effect, and bad side effect. Good is, that we focus on real things and we actually get faster and still about 100% usable results and also greater amounts of stuff produced for shorter time with less effort. This sounds like good management. However we are not machines. We must find reasons behind our actions and decisions. Those reasons such as joy and pleasure from really perfect work, some honor and natural things like will to do things better. These suffer and it is not good.

But as everything has a reason, so has this. If you don´t like what you see, report it and try to help and contribute. You can start your career with perfect writing about technicall stuff. I tried, and I´m not going to do that again. Only thing you will be able to look back for, will be just your honor. Nobody will shake your hand for it and say how good you are. You will be judged mostly for your mistakes and flaws.

From what I´ve seen, I must agree that there is some quality downswing in this aspect on DPR. I felt that even when my language is not that good and I´m not native speaker. But I believe all data from review has been transmitted in a way that we still receive 100% of what should have been told/written.

So please: I´m tremendously happy that you care. I do too. But don´t go further and don´t be grammar ****.

 

[Mark B.]

I am surprised by the many typos in articles published by dpreview; nobody does spell check or proofreading anymore?

It's a sign of the times.

News articles, news papers and 99.9% of the blogs posted to the Internet are written by people who either have no grasp of the English language or who simply don't care.

Many college graduates can't read at anything above a fifth grade level, can't tell time using an analog clock and can't write cursive.

When words (non-words) like "anyways" have become acceptable, all is lost. :-D

Agreed. I can understand grammar & spelling errors on an international forum, but articles written by website employees should more or less be error-free or at least be limited to minor typos. I couldn't say whether or not this applies to DPR, I don't typically read the articles & reviews in detail.

Worse, though, is the decline in newspapers & magazines. I maintain a subscription to my local newspaper only because it's the best way to know what's going on in my immediate region. The writing, at times, leaves something to be desired.


Mark

 

[Simon Joinson]

I am surprised by the many typos in articles published by dpreview; nobody does spell check or proofreading anymore?

Sometimes we publish things in a hurry (right now we're severely understaffed editorially), sometimes typos get missed. Usually they get fixed quickly, and I doubt they ever render the content incomprehensible (or inaccurate). Your one sentence post has several grammatical errors but that doesn't mean you're wrong, or that I don't get what you mean.

That said though, I hate typos, and find grammatical errors almost physically painful to see in print, and they are distracting / disruptive to many readers. We have high editorial standards but we cannot afford the luxury of proofreaders or subeditors, so we sometimes fail to meet those standards.

In reply to your question I would ask that you think about this: 'nobody does paying for content anymore?'

Thx for teh fedebak we akshully do care and wheel make shure we smellchek betterer in footur.

SJ

 

[adegroot]

thaenks four thryingh too mayke dee syte errorr vree

 

[Chikoo]

If you wanna one, am abalabel.

 

[Simon Joinson]

If you wanna one, am abalabel.

is u qualifyed?

 

[Ron Poelman]

[No message]

 

[Henry Falkner]

I am surprised by the many typos in articles published by dpreview; nobody does spell check or proofreading anymore?

No proof reader is perfect. I edit an amateur radio newsletter, and my stuff is proof read. On the occasion where I have more than one proof reader (when the content is sensitive), they all find different mistakes.

Henry

 

[Graham Meale]

I'm with Winston Churchill: poor grammar is something up with which I will not put.

 

[Mahmoud Mousef]

I am surprised by the many typos in articles published by dpreview; nobody does spell check or proofreading anymore?

I bought one of these little round hollow rubber-ish tubes you put garlic in and press down on it and roll it a bit to make the skin come off easier. On the tube is written "Peel the gaylic tube". I'm sure they are still pumping these out by the thousands without a care.

For the small cost I paid it has paid for itself several times in laughs. Chinglish is the best.

 

[Wubslin]

We are at the age of productivity at all costs. This means obvious things: As you understand to a point that it doesn´t do any real damage, and all people are paid to their official rate, everything is good even it actually is not.

This has good side effect, and bad side effect. Good is, that we focus on real things and we actually get faster and still about 100% usable results and also greater amounts of stuff produced for shorter time with less effort. This sounds like good management. However we are not machines. We must find reasons behind our actions and decisions. Those reasons such as joy and pleasure from really perfect work, some honor and natural things like will to do things better. These suffer and it is not good.

But as everything has a reason, so has this. If you don´t like what you see, report it and try to help and contribute. You can start your career with perfect writing about technicall stuff. I tried, and I´m not going to do that again. Only thing you will be able to look back for, will be just your honor. Nobody will shake your hand for it and say how good you are. You will be judged mostly for your mistakes and flaws.

From what I´ve seen, I must agree that there is some quality downswing in this aspect on DPR. I felt that even when my language is not that good and I´m not native speaker. But I believe all data from review has been transmitted in a way that we still receive 100% of what should have been told/written.

So please: I´m tremendously happy that you care. I do too. But don´t go further and don´t be grammar ****.

 

[ZorSy]

Our brain can easily 'rectify' incorrectly written text but grinds to a halt with numbers.



cheers

 

[Mahmoud Mousef]

nice bonus