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Great QA 3M!!
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robleyd
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Guess the odds are that their product quality is at least one step above their spelling quality 
Yellow callipers - ugh. Although I suppose it would work with the purple wheels on the average riceboy vehicle.
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I am convinced that the world is becoming illiterate.
And spell check isn't helping- it wouldn't find any problems on that "break" paint can.
I remember years ago- YEARS ago- being in secondary school and seeing a report by a fellow student, someone who I thought was very intelligent.
Then I saw that he wrote about advances in science, detailing the latest scientific brakethrew 
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robleyd
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And he now works for 3M obviously
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drikko
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| SugarHillCTD wrote: | | brakethrew |
So totally with you SH, I am obsessed with spelling and grammar, not saying I'm perfect, but even in the companies I have worked for the last 20 years I have insisted on everything from marketing going by me first and there is always errors. I am guilty of doing typos but errors like the above aren't typos, they are ignorance. Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man who shouldn't give a fuck but it does upset me 
The funniest thing I see is the miss use of the apostrophes' like that....
edit: Hey Rob, I think I spelled that right, not bad after 10 VBs!!
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| drikko wrote: | | SugarHillCTD wrote: | | brakethrew |
So totally with you SH, I am obsessed with spelling and grammar, not saying I'm perfect, but even in the companies I have worked for the last 20 years I have insisted on everything from marketing going by me first and there is always errors. I am guilty of doing typos but errors like the above aren't typos, they are ignorance. Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man who shouldn't give a fuck but it does upset me
The funniest thing I see is the miss use of the apostrophes' like that....
edit: Hey Rob, I think I spelled that right, not bad after 10 VBs!! |
It's the basics that are not being taught in schools today. Sad, really.
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m1ks
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That is appalling, I see Brakes being spelled this way frequently on various forums.
For a company such as 3M it's shocking, (they are genuine 3M products aren't they?), am curious as quite literally anything gets knocked off these days and spray paint would be one of the easiest to wangle a few extra pounds on due to brand naming.
I just can't imagine something like that would slip through.
The current level of spelling accuracy is very poor though, Spellcheck and text messaging share a large portion of the blame and evidently poor teaching of the basics likewise.
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[/quote] So totally with you SH, I am obsessed with spelling and grammar, not saying I'm perfect, but even in the companies I have worked for the last 20 years I have insisted on everything from marketing going by me first and there is always errors[/quote]
Well drikko remember that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. My understanding of the Queen's English requires there are always errors. It's the plural I believe. I dread to think what has got by you in the last 20 years if this is any indication. LOL. My take on the topic of sloppy spelling and grammar is it is all about communication, if the message being communicated is understood who cares. Just look at the little extra publicity 3M have got here and I am pretty confident every one knows what they are on about.
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I don't think it is a 3M product, just a cheap Chinese product pretending to be. I couldn't find any of these paints in any of the 3M websites at all. Might bring it to their attention, after all there was a whole shelf full of the cans in one of our bigger retailers. I also noticed most of the real 3M labeling had a little "TM" next to their logo unlike these.
As for me using "is" instead of "are" DOH!  Excuse I'll use is I was half tanked at the time 
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Might have helped this guy to learn to spell:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q5urQrh2Co
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| drikko wrote: | I don't think it is a 3M product, just a cheap Chinese product pretending to be. I couldn't find any of these paints in any of the 3M websites at all. Might bring it to their attention, after all there was a whole shelf full of the cans in one of our bigger retailers. I also noticed most of the real 3M labeling had a little "TM" next to their logo unlike these.
As for me using "is" instead of "are" DOH! Excuse I'll use is I was half tanked at the time |
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Eye halve a spelling chequer
I have a spelling checker.
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when I rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's Hour
spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flair,
Their are no fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a ware.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays,
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting too pleas.
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