I signed up for Panda Express emails and got one today promoting their collaboration with Disney. At select Panda Express locations you can buy a Pei Pei Panda Plush Bear for $5.00 and get a gift set free. The first part of the email (underneath the picture of the Bear and the gift set) says, "All the net proceeds will be donated to Panda Cares Foundation to help support the health and education needs of undeserved youth." A little further in the email we see it actually helps "underserved youth."

I know I'm far from perfect and I'm not trying to criticize. How many times have I sent a text or an email or a MS report and later notice a typo or the same word twice, like "the the". Just realizing how easy it is to make a mistake in my own writing and overlook it but easier to see an issue in someone else's.

I hope they caught that typo! That was pretty major.

I often see errors in postings and shop forms. I recently was assigned a shop that says start date of May 22 but due date of May 6.
Apparently, proof reading is not important at the shopping companies.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/19/2023 01:48PM by SueW70.

Mistypes and misspellings have been rampant for years. It is not that they no longer bother me but that I feel I am helpless to try to correct these issues. For years I have seen announcements of events where they evidently used last year's flyer and forgot or neglected to update the information so the event is now happening on the 19th and it says Saturday when the 19th this year is on a Sunday. I have also gotten emails and literature put out by highly educated people with glaring spelling and grammatical issues. Some of this may be due to poor education in grammar or the many people here in this country where English is not their first language or often where the letter or whatever is written not by the person sending it out but by their assistant who may have a lesser grasp on grammar. Also it might be a time issue where the company is understaffed or overworked or a brain trick. It took me several readings to spot the issue in the post even though I knew there was one. My brain conveniently added the missing r in when I read it over.
I cannot even count the times when an imbedded software program has totally changed the meaning of what I wrote by the assumption I meant a different word or words than I had typed in,. Often I do not notice these changes until after I hit send. Also when I worked at a highly ranked medical center I would often get notices directly from the CEO that went out to the entire 15,000 person staff that contained very poor grammar. Who does that? It seems lots of people and places.

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