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Spelling Errors in Overviews
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantDr. Killpatient
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Off Topic - but did anybody else notice that Skip and Hal agreed with each other?
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Off Topic - but did anybody else notice that Skip and Hal agreed with each other?

I think I just saw a pig fly by... 
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I am in total agreement, Hal. ^5

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Off Topic - but did anybody else notice that Skip and Hal agreed with each other?

Not really. Skip agreed with Hal (not the other way around), he even wanted to do a "High Five"...  
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
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As a proofreader, I find the above mentioned separation of the terms "spelling error" and "typo" hilarious. Anything misspelled is a spelling error. Anything mistyped is a typographical error (abbreviated as "typo"). So if the writer or typesetter misspells something for a DVD cover and it gets printed, it is both a spelling error and a typo. If one of us fat fingers (nice, Gerri) a spelling mistake, then it, too, is both a spelling error and a typo. Typos also can include erronious (or missing) punctuation, odd spacings, and weird wraparounds. A typo can be any error introduced into copy during the typesetting process, including spelling errors. In our instances spelling errors and typos are not separate, (spelling errors printed on DVD cases; spelling errors introduced by transcribers who submit profiles) but one is contained within the other, with spelling errors being a subset of typos.


I agree with that. Words that are wrongly spelled in a sentence are as ugly as a red pimple on the nose, whatever the cause. I still regret that contribution rules advocate what all teachers try, with many difficulties, to teach to our children...


I have suggestion for Surfeur, per haps you get a job in Hollywood either proof-reading or perhaps teaching spelling and grammar to those whackos.

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I have suggestion for Surfeur, per haps you get a job in Hollywood either proof-reading or perhaps teaching spelling and grammar to those whackos.

Skip

Please don't or Next we're all doing French Capitalization Rules
Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions.
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ROFLMAO.

Skip
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Billy Video
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fat fingered something


Thanks for the clarification, and I love this term.  It made me 
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Maybe we should ask for a clarification in the rules, instead of:

"You are making a subtle change that may be hard to spot - for example spelling correction to the overview."

we should have:

"You are making a subtle change that may be hard to spot - for example correcting a fat-fingered overview."

 
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