Why can't QANTAS employees spell??

[codash1099]

Maybe they're from Ohio?

I agree race has nothing to do with it, there's plenty of bad speelers out their.

and many of them reside on this forum :mrgreen:

 

[Deleted member]

Because they are human and made a mistake???

Because they cant use spell check?

 

[rechoboam]

You bet it's not a recent phenomenon, until about 500 years ago things were spelled in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways. In Elizabethan times spelling was quite erratic, even of common names (which puts a different slant on people who freak out when they see "Mishell" or "Rabeka"). Given the standard of literature at the time it doesn't seem to have done too much damage. While correct spelling has become a marker of intelligence and literacy at least to some I am not convinced it needs to be that way.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Totally off-off topic
Sadly, cove, this is not a recent phenomenon. We Baby Boomers had to learn some words by heart (accommodation, hippopotamus) as well as knowing the 'demon' words - there and their, its and it's, bought and brought, were, where & we're, etc etc etc. (and don't start me on times tables!). Or on singular and plural, eg Harvey Norman are having a sale, rather than is. If you weren't sure about spelling, use a dictionary, now isn't that a novel notion! Somehow it became less important for the next generation (Y?) so now this lot (X?) have no hope. So....I guess we have to take some responsibility for allowing the importance of spelling and grammar to wane. However if you happen to be able to spell well, as I can, it's infuriating to see the howlers which get printed in books, newspapers and magazines. My all-time personal favourite is 'shammy' !
Right, that's it, I have officially turned into a grumpy old woman.......

This is so true - when my 3 were in primary school I used to do reading in the classes every week - one teacher told me I had an incredible talent for teaching children how to read. My talent I ignored the fashion of not using phonetics and taught the children how to sound out words as well as using the context reading that was the current wisdom. My two older children had almost no times table practise in school, spelling lists or grammar and once when I showed my child the correct use of quotation marks within a sentence, it was incorrectly changed by a teacher... When my children did German in High School the German teacher first taught them English Grammar as he said he could do nothing about grammar in a second language until they had the basics in the first......

However by the time my youngest was going through primary school there had been a bit of a revival of both spelling lists and phonetics, so perhaps in a few years the current plague of poor spelling will diminish.

 

[AirKat]

I just posted this in a different thread and then saw this one where it may have been more relevant! This is my welcome to P1 letter from this week. Yes, mistakes happen, but surely they can spell Frequent?

 

[flyingfan]

I just posted this in a different thread and then saw this one where it may have been more relevant! This is my welcome to P1 letter from this week. Yes, mistakes happen, but surely they can spell Frequent?

Not to mention Platinum :shock: :shock:

 

[AirKat]

Not to mention Platinum :shock: :shock:

Well spotted! I didn't even see that one

 

[flyingfan]

Well spotted! I didn't even see that one

There looks like a space for the apostrophe in It's all about exceptional personalised service but I don't see the apostrophe... but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt

(And yes, I too wouldn't mind if the welcome letter was written in Urdu if I would still get P1 benefits )

 

[Flashback]

There's only one thing I have to say on this matter.

 

[AVC]

Alan Joyce isn't from around here, so it's no wonder he can't spell.

Must Fly's entry reminded me of Wheel Of Fortune, or in the cae I saw, Wheel Of Morons.

Picture this. Near the end of the round. The clue is "A Movie". Letters on the board >> _HONE BOOTH

They could have solved it to win but they went for another spin for some more $$. What letter did she choose? G. Yes,G! Are you kidding me?

Ghone Booth? *shakes head*

The trouble around here is that there are a lot of "old school" types. Who actually had to learn spelling. And "times tables". (Multiplication tables actually)

 

[Julesmac]

I have threatened to go around with a couple of Textas in my pocket to insert the errant apostrophe or rub it out as the case may be. I walked past a business one day and just could not resist popping my head in the door to ask if they'd paid the signwriter yet - because he'd given them a whole new business - 'Wrot Iron'. As bad as the truck offering 'Rebloking Services'. I wonder what that involved!

 

[Ausbt]

The petty-ness an' westan-world-problem focii continues. Thinking positively though hot air may make planes fly higher and faster...?

 

[jetlagger]

I just posted this in a different thread and then saw this one where it may have been more relevant! This is my welcome to P1 letter from this week. Yes, mistakes happen, but surely they can spell Frequent? View attachment 7454

This seriously should not happen! Whether or not spell check was or wasn't applied.

 

[Flashback]

This seriously should not happen! Whether or not spell check was or wasn't applied.

So either their template is wrong..... or the letters are in fact personally written (nice touch).

 

[Justchecking]

That's the spelling proficiency of your average early 20's office worker. I have a toothbrush I just bought from the supermarket that says on the packaging it's got an 'ergonomical design'. Spelling and grammar has not been taught at high school for just about my entire life which means anyone under the age of 60 has little grasp of the english language. I was lucky, I read books that were written by people much older than me. Welcome to the modern world.

I find it funny that people call spelling correctors petty. It's actually annoying to try and guess what someone meant by deciphering poor spelling and grammar. I spotted some advertising on the side of a vehicle yesterday. They appeared to be advertising some kind of motivational coaching [I think]. They were going to 'ennavate' your life.

 

[yo yo ma]

Because they cant use spell check?

Maybe they cant [sic]?

 

[Justchecking]

..... or the letters are in fact personally written (nice touch).

Well AJ did sign it. He might have written it too.

 

[Happy Trails]

.... or the letters are in fact personally written (nice touch).

No, mine was identical.

 

[Flashback]

No, mine was identical.

So in that case, it's a bad template! :shock:

 

[Sprucegoose]

This seriously should not happen! Whether or not spell check was or wasn't applied.

dear oh dear not flash...is that the irish spelling?