Showing posts with label Laura. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laura. Show all posts

Thursday, September 24, 2009

crucial ligament tear

Another submission from Laura. She spotted these articles in the Yahoo! Shine article, "Why is my dog limping?" and writes that these errors...
appeared in an article on Yahoo! Shine, but it was written by someone from Purina (a "Purina blogger"). Since the article wasn't by a yahoo, I won't be including it in Terribly Write.
I'm no expert in medicine (veterinary or human), but I did recognize that there may be a "crucial ligament" in dogs and people, but the writer meant "cruciate ligament." Making a mistake like that might be considered a careless typo. But twice? I think that borders on idiocy.

Be sure to visit Laura's blog, Terribly Write. Thanks, Laura! Click the images to enlarge them.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

lightening fires

The image above was sent to me by Laura, who spotted the errors on the San Jose Mercury News website. Inserting an E into the middle of lightning once could be mistaken for a careless typo. Doing it twice is stretching the carelessness boundaries. Doing it three times in short succession is clearly intentional.

Laura's Yahoo!-focused blog, Terribly Write, is very entertaining and you should definitely check it out. Thanks for the submission, Laura!