This makes me think of the architect I deal with who, although he is perfectly lucid and intelligent during conversation, could not compose a comprehensible e-mail if his life depended on it. Not to mention the fact that he doesn’t know that there are two “Shift” keys on the keyboard, so his poor grammar and spelling are entwined in a sea of lower-case letters. Gah!
–refined development of the hands and feet, check
–a shortened snout, check
–a large brain, check minus
OK, make that “gigi and any other primates”
One more that DanielWithrow missed. “Sept” in the last line should have a period after it.
Or, maybe, “the bank has always kept its important…”?
Bricker, I liked your reply. While my tolerance for this sort of thing is possibly a little greater than yours, (it would probably take five or six very bad spelling mistakes for me to not buy something) I agree with the main argument. I’m amazed at how often I see shoddy spelling in ads. They are too lazy to run a spell-check ?
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Bosda, the first line of your sig has me intrigued
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Go to the Mad Magazine website. Look for the Sobe’ promos.
Type in the first line of my sig–all caps. $15 for a year. Expires soon.
There shouldn’t be much tolerance for this sort of thing in professional emails at all, IMO. After all, if someone called you up and couldn’t express themselves clearly and professionally, you wouldn’t buy anything from them (i.e., they slurred their speech, left out verbs, etc.). Although email is a step below a formal letter, it certainly should be held to a standard of no spelling mistakes.
Not to be too anal, but I think “Sept” should be completely spelled out “September” in a business letter.
Otherwise, yes, it needs a period.