Some of the best technicians I have worked with couldn't spell if their lives depended on it. But they can keep a tight rein on a radar or HF radio. It seems to me that the same might very well hold true in other vocational areas. People have different abilities and skillsets.
I, myself, am the first to admit that, although I consider myself highly proficient in grammar and spelling, my penmanship is absolute shite, and I pray to the Goddess of Keyboards daily. Doesn't mean I'm a bad technician though.
So...please don't diss someone's technical abilities based on their bad spelling. They likely have strengths in other areas that a chemist with a doctorate couldn't touch. Can you drive a truck, fix a printing press, swap out an aircraft engine, or replace the rotary joint on a search radar?
As for the misspelling of 'millennium', it could quite well boil down to issues of uniqueness with respect to advertising, or perhaps even placement in the phonebook, where a careful 'spelling' of a trade name could get you first. I don't know if any proofreading happens in the production of adcopy though...
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Date: 2009-10-06 02:07 pm (UTC)I, myself, am the first to admit that, although I consider myself highly proficient in grammar and spelling, my penmanship is absolute shite, and I pray to the Goddess of Keyboards daily. Doesn't mean I'm a bad technician though.
So...please don't diss someone's technical abilities based on their bad spelling. They likely have strengths in other areas that a chemist with a doctorate couldn't touch. Can you drive a truck, fix a printing press, swap out an aircraft engine, or replace the rotary joint on a search radar?
As for the misspelling of 'millennium', it could quite well boil down to issues of uniqueness with respect to advertising, or perhaps even placement in the phonebook, where a careful 'spelling' of a trade name could get you first. I don't know if any proofreading happens in the production of adcopy though...