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An unfortunate spelling error from my son's yearbook. On the upside "Color Guardians" sound like a pretty cool superhero group.

YEARBOOK?

My word the speeling throughout is atrosious

That misspelling of the word sousaphone reminds me of a (claimed to be) true story about Ronald Reagan speaking to his chief of staff about how a meeting went between him and Desmond Tutu.

This is clearly an example of a yearbook compiled by the students (a good thing), but not proof-read by anyone (a bad thing) including the teacher running the yearbook (an even worse thing). Back when my wife and I were teachers, my wife ran the yearbook at the small Christian school we taught at. There is NO WAY, she would have let that sneak through.

The whole book of full of errors.. The yearbook club and advisor seemed to have phoned it in when it came to proofreading.

Preformences!

Need to fire the entire English department! How anyone could get so far along in years of education, and still be that illiterate is alarming . . . The school has clearly failed them!

Sounds legit.

When I play mine it's a sosophone. I aspire to make it all the way up to mediocre, that would be an improvement!

- strive should be "stride"

- sosophones

- color "guardians"

- preformences

- style choice, but I would say "between" instead of "in between" for brevity/clarity

Post more, I love proofreading!

I think those of us who "can't not proofread" give ourselves more stress than we need.

Mary Ann wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 10:00 am I think those of us who "can't not proofread" give ourselves more stress than we need.

Don't even get me started on theory part-writing assignments. The inability of me to turn the analysis part of my brain off while listening to classical music dictates that I rarely, if ever, listen to classical music for fun.

I'm happy that I can still listen to some music right-brained instead of analyzing how it is being played. The written word, however, nope. Facebook is torture for me except for one group that is for writers.

Future business leaders, politicians, and captains of industry. I won't say or presume a thing about merit or capability

How many people in this comments thread struggled to hold back on a critique of this (pretty much) proof of functional illiteracy?

---dp
"hey I played a so-so-phone in HS too"

I play duh bear-tone.

The school sent a message apologizing after so many people, rightfully, complained about the quality of the yearbooks. Apparently the person who normally organized and ran the yearbook club retired and the district paid the printer compile it... and they used a fantastic new AI typesetting program :game:

We are safe from the robots for a little longer it seems.

bloke wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2024 2:28 pm I play duh bear-tone.

Have received emails in the past from parents inquiring about giving their kid "lessons on the bear tone."

Mary Ann wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 10:00 am I think those of us who "can't not proofread" give ourselves more stress than we need.

Agreed! It is a tough condition. I had countless teachers come to me over the years asking me to proof their displays and bulletin boards before the boss came by. I'm just the music teacher, not the English guy.
scottw