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English spellcheck 'to blame for statue typos'
A row has broken out after it emerged that a monument in Oslo to Norwegian wartime resistance fighters was covered in typos. The designer says use of English spellcheck is partly to blame.
The memorial was unveiled in November, and honours members of the communist Pelle Group, whose achievements included the blowing up of six ships and one shipyard crane in 1944. The monument at Aker Brygge in Oslo, close to the scene of their attacks, was seen as belated recognition for the group.
But now it is under attack for a series of typos: the word fellesskap (community) has been spelt felleskap. Oslo-området (the Oslo area) is missing a t. Some periods have been placed where they should not be, other periods are missing, according to Aftenposten.
Its particularly unfortunate when spelling mistakes are made on signs and statues which many people will see and which will be around for a long time, Botlov Helleland, language expert at Oslo University, to Aftenposten.
http://www.thelocal.no/20131227/english-spellcheck-blamed-for-memorial-typos
Orrex
(63,216 posts)They should really invent such a thing.
rock
(13,218 posts)!
bluesbassman
(19,375 posts)Lord knows what fellesskap would've turned out as.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Grabbed some text from the plaque: http://www.nrk.no/ostlandssendingen/minnesmerke-fullt-av-skrivefeil-1.11438341
Sollie under denknawnet pelle I arene
utforte norges
skipsverftene akers mek verksted
fellesskap
Accepted first offered corrections (with apologies to Norway...):
Sollie under Tennant Pele I Irene
ut forte Borges
skipsverftene agers meek vested
foolscap
on point
(2,506 posts)KitSileya
(4,035 posts)I must admit that sometimes I just want to grab my red pen when I see menus, ads, posters with tons of mistakes in them. It's the teacher in me. And I don't even use a red pen to grade - I use green ink, because red has such unfortunate associations for many of my students. I'm willing to bet that someone will deface that statue before long, tho' - but I'm not going to Oslo until May....
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Proofeeder, to.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)That's what happens when you give information over the phone to the caster, particularly when it involves Spanish names and tildes, that wiggly little mark that goes over the ñ.
treestar
(82,383 posts)When it's something that will be set in stone for a permanent monument.
I get the right wingers will do it for big signs they make by hand, because they are ignorant, but a stone monument should be checked by real people, not spell check. Imagine how dumb the carvers must be, too, not to notice that.