Is it wrong to tell a company that something they put out had a spelling mistake?

[WillParkinson]

Yeah, I'm kind of a picky person when it comes to spelling. Today we bought an 'Endangered Species Chocolate Bar'. It has a small square card in it that talks about a different endangered species. The one we got was a 'Fungus Beetle'. The first line of the card reads, "Found under sheets of 'lose' bark"....

I don't normally correct people (other than Paul and that's a full time job as it is) but companies I tell about problems like that.

[joeybee12]

1. Yeah, tell them it's loose bark...

bark that has sex indiscriminately!

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Yest.

[petronius]

3. Definitely tell them - then maybe the person who wrote the card will get fired

Kidding about the fired part. But I would tell them if you feel like taking the time. Even though it's totally unrelated to the product, things like that do affect how I feel about a company or even a person. If they're sloppy in their spelling, maybe they're sloppy about other things (like keeping fungus beetles out of the chocolate vats)...

[grasswire]

4. I was just reading the online menu for a hotshot NYC restaurant..

...and in one place it says "yucon" gold potatoes.

Damn. How could they miss that?

[rug]

8. It's the French spelling.

[grasswire]

9. well, they spelled it Yukon on the same page, too

Get it straight, pals.

[ThomasQED]

5. I'm trying to figure out how to tell the school it's "buses", not "busses" like their sign says

Yeah, tell them, and they can fix it next time. I recently told a nonprofit that their brochure had a few errors and they were grateful.

[AngryOldDem]

6. Yes.

They'll appreciate it.

[snooper2]

7. you'll probably create 65 hours of work

with somebody scrubbing all public doc's looking for errors :)

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

10. I would tell them

I was reading the website of a school here in Munich that was advertising a position for an English teacher and the page was riddled with grammar mistakes, spelling errors and had obviously been written by someone with limited mastery of the English language. I wrote to the director of the school and told her that 1) because of the shoddy website I was not interested in the position and 2) that had I been a parent looking for a school for my child that emphasized teaching English and seen their website I wouldn't have chosen them.

She wrote me back and thanked me for alerting her about the problem and said they would fix the mistakes immediately.

[jobycom]

11. You mean the Fungus Beetle that lives in the Lose Tree, under it's bark?

What's wrong with that?



:smoke:

[astral]

12. It's Not Bark!

It's and Its are always mixed up. Drives me nuts.

The sad thing is that people who can't spell don't know that they can't spell so they don't use spell checker, which of course can't fix everything. When I started taking some college classes (long ago . . . ) a bunch of the students (like, the MAJORITY of them) were told they should not have been put in the college writing class because they needed work on punctuation and sentence structure, and yes, spelling. I heard comments from people at how offended they were to be told they couldn't write right. Right write?

Of Korse they didn't even beleave it was troo.

[jobycom]

15. Oh, I made an oopsie. First time thats ever happened.

:P

[In_The_Wind]

13. Tell 'em.

How are kids gonna learn if even candy bars are wrong. :9

[bbernardini]

14. I did that once, got a bunch of free stuff in return.

I didn't ask for the stuff either. We had gone to a local restaurant, and one of their desserts featuring peanut butter was spelled "peanus" butter instead. I thought they might like to have it brought to their attention, for obvious (I hope) reasons.