8.09.2003

One of the Internet's Main Failings
The internet is great, its a chat room, its a marketplace, its a sex exploratorium (oh yeah, gotta love the fetish site of girls stepping on bugs, soooo hot and sexy). The internet can also bring down politicians who spout first and think maybe not at all.

But the internet has alot of problems. It allows narrow minded fools to spread hate, it allows sick fucks to arrange meetings with minors, it allows terrorists to capitalize on their missions of hate and death, it gives a voice to people with nothing good to say (though that's not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself). And another thing the internet does is expose just how terrible the educational system is in our country, presuming that my example was educated here. But here it is, an actual auction I came across tonight on Ebay, reproduced for your benefit and enjoyment.
KAYAK ANNIMATED MAUAL OF WHITEWATER TECHNIQUE, nice eh?

Not the end of the world but indicative of one of the most pervasive problems on the internet. The lack of spell checking, basic proofing of content before it goes public. The auction itself doesn't have any other typos but the title is plenty awful already.

Its one thing to spell things colorfully in a short story or other free writing forum but this is just plain sloppy, slip shod and lame.

The whole world needs a spell checker. Or they should slow down for just a moment before releasing some representative writing into the wilds of the internet. I can see the day when all spelling is up for grabs or people will just spele thins enyweigh they feal like.

By the way, I am, by no means, exempting myself from short cutting and publishing things with errors in it. But I do make the effort to catch them and fix them when possible and there's no way, no how that I'd ever create an auction with such a poorly put together title as that one. Because, if your first impression is one that you're a sloppy person with extremely limited spelling skills then why would anyone willingly do business with you?
Its the same thing as going to get a haircut from someone who looks like they did their own hair with a weed wacker. Best thing to do is turn and burn.

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