Knowing how to spell can save you time and money

by Grace

We received this card in the mail recently.

Such a great deal!

Someone in my household, a young person, was captivated and wanted to find out more about this “complementary” cruise.  My explanation that there is no such thing as a free lunch did not deter this young person from investigating further, before sadly learning it was not really a “complementary” cruise.

Being older and wiser, I knew this offer was not worth pursuing.  However, even a younger person might have figured out that any card with such an atrocious misspelling should be dumped in the trash right away.

Knowing how to spell can save you time and money.

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6 Comments to “Knowing how to spell can save you time and money”

  1. Sadly, misspellings are rampant. When I was working in industry, I used to see misspelled words and stupid grammar mistakes everywhere, even in important internal documents. The older employees were often the worst offenders too – perhaps they are not as adept with a spell checker?

  2. Agreed on rampant misspelling, but I don’t remember that the older folks were the worst – could be the spell checking thing. I hate grammar mistakes more than spelling ones, though. (And I hate them the most when I make them!)

  3. Maybe it was deliberate—if the cruise was not free, but a complement to complete some other purchase.

  4. Definitely the older guys were the worst. I think older engineers didn’t have to do as much writing, perhaps, in college. We had this one guy in QA who could not write a complete sentence. He was about 60, clearly waiting for retirement, and was ex-military. He would write system documentation, get this, in Excel spreadsheets because then he wouldn’t have to actually write paragraphs or real sentences. His documentation would consist of terse phrases organized inscrutably in cells. This meant that anyone who needed to learn the system would have to go meet with him to figure out what his secret code meant. I guess it was job security.

    The writing standards in industry were horrible, just horrible. One would expect engineers to not be able to write, but the managers were just as bad.

  5. Yeah, good point, and that will be their defense in court if people thought they were getting something for free.

  6. Writing in Excel — never heard of that one!

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