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Dude. Since that's local to me, now I want to join the club or whatever SO I CAN PROOFREAD THEIR PRESS RELEASES.

I would pay you one million internet dollars to do that.

See...and my reaction was just to be embarrassed for my city and rant about it in my LJ. ;-)

I can't chide others--not when my work suffers from the same issues, however, I wouldn't let it go beyond my own eyes or locked LJ if it was meant for mass consumption, without MEEKING my freends prufweed.

My first reaction was to email them and rant at them, but I successfully stifled that in return for just being snarky on the internets. XD

I think I'm slightly OCD. I can't help it. :

And this is why you are a professional wordsmith!

Back in undergrad, I remember many papers I turned in without proofreading other than a spellcheck because I was sick of the topic and was convinced my argument was stupid and I didn't want to read it again, and I got marked down a lot for that, but I wouldn't have let something that represented a community or organization I was a part of go out into public like that.

I typo a lot here, but I pretend very loudly that it's due to RSI in my wrists. XD

OMG, internet dollars?!? I'm there!

...the urge has passed.

Mostly because I went to their website and burst out laughing at how old school it is. WHY AM I SUCH A SNOB?

Although, I clicked on their photo page and I think I went to college with one of their members. o_o

DAMN YOU, LJ! You messed up my emoticon! *shakes fist in rage*

As did I.

I got into an argument in one of my grad school classes over website projects we did. We got into groups and had to make an online exhibition, and then critique each others' work. One group's website - this was in 2002, mind you - was done with framesets and big 3D buttons with shadow effects. The cutting edge of web design ... for 1995. And the main designer took exception to that, even when I pointed out that if I came across that site I'd assume it hadn't actually been updated since 1995.

Oh, I seriously considered marking up a copy of the release and emailing it to them but I felt somehow that the effort would be wasted. I think I'll just stay on my side of the river and pretend they're not just next door instead.

It's weird, I have fic posted at FicWad--but when it comes to printing those babies, for a doujinshi, I'll actually pay a small fee to have them edited by a stranger. LOL! Yeah, I've got this thing about exposing the 'public at large' to my own form of stupid*, but the net is more--relative.

*Stupid limited to written format, but not related to opinions, takes, and theories on genres, mediums, and movements.

Aside from everything else that was wrong with it, my brain went bad places with, "Keep in mind that your art work will be HUNG."

I mean, is that a requirement? What if I'm drawing women?

... no, on second thought, don't answer that.

Excuse me. You got snark on my internet.

they reserve the right to refuse any submitted art! thank god.

(My brain went there, too)

Two great tastes that taste... or maybe not.

:D

Well, obviously it's a yaoi show...

Of course, the ART WORK WILL BE HUNG. Or not. Ignore me.

I don't understand the point of an art show where the art isn't sold. Don't know why I'd even submit something then?

Judging by the location - a public library - I think it's an art exhibit, rather than an art show.

Do not make the manga editor read these things, thank you.

/eyes bleeding

You had fair warning!

For that matter, don't make the writing professor read these things. Oh well, at least I don't have to grade it.

And the sad thing is, it's better than a lot of the things I graded when TAing.

I just wanna know if they thought of getting a back-up artist. I mean, what if the first artist can't make it?

This is a very serious concern, naturally, as is exactly what they're accepting, since they're excepting all fan work from the show.

Illiteracy: It's Not Just For Badfic Writers Anymore!

Ow. That hurts to read. Guys, get someone to proofread stuff that will be released to the public! Yes, it is important! *headdesks*

I really, really want to assume that the rough draft accidentally got released, but that's Still No Excuse.

I understand accepted/excepted, typos, and other such errors...but I still can't figure out random capitalization. How does your brain have to be configured to think that capitalizing "Art Work" and "Frames" makes any sense?

It's one of the easiest things about English orthography, ~~accept~~ except when it comes to titles.

I've certainly seen worse over the years. After a while, it starts to affect the teacher's writing.

Maybe they're German?

English used to capitalize common nouns, but that was awhile ago. Like, 200 years ago. And they weren't watching anime back then.

What I found amusing was how the beginning isn't that bad, but the "I didn't look over this before submitting it" feeling gets stronger and stronger in the last half.

I'm so lost as to why this is getting made fun of so much. :-/ ::head scratch::

Yeah, I knew about common nouns being capitalized in the past. Capitalization was also used for emphasis once upon a time.

But neither explains why they capitalized what they did.

I think people do get confused when they're doing notices and signs, but yeah, "Frames?" That makes no sense.

It isn't nearly as bad as some, but the random capitalization of words that don't need to be capitalized, the usage error of "excepted" when they mean "accepted," as well as some words missing letters, makes it snarkworthy.

??

The fact that the only sort of proofreading this thing saw was a spellcheck in whatever program it was written in, and that it's so badly punctuated, capitalized, and written that in at least one spot they completely contradict themselves* isn't enough? Especially when added to the fact that this is an official press release that represents their organization, and what it says about their organization is either that nobody is literate enough to realize that this thing desperately needs editing, or that communication within the organization is so badly broken down that whoever wrote this didn't give it to anybody else to proofread ... which means that the organization is letting someone with the writing skills of a seventh-grader create their official P.R.

It looks really fucking bad.

* To "except" something means that they don't want it. What they meant was "accept".

The one thing I see missing, though, is "scare quotes," so they dodged at least that one pothole.