Poorly written posts.
I suggest you all go onto the 'Opportunities' section on the jobs board for a ggod laugh. There is a well known acting school just crying out for actors to provide 'feeding' to on a student film shoot. That is just one of a couple of howlers.
I wouldn't normally of bothered but I remember another casting call from them which was equally poorly written, to the point of being insulting. Whether this the result of a poor command of English or not?
Is this coincidence or are these calls all being put by the same person?!
Do CCP not double check the wording on these posts? Particularly as these are alerts for jobs, although not they are not paid.
Or am I just being fussy...
Maybe that should read fuzzy.
Jimmy
Thank the gods for those poorly written posts. They have "DO NOT APPLY" written into the subtext. A really useful filter!
Definitely one of the criteria I use for applying for things. If something is grammatically correct, spelt right and sounds vaguely intelligent then I think the script and project as whole stands some chance of being so too.
On a second point, if I see yet another apocalyptic zombie type thing ..... yawn!!!
And right on cue one has just popped up for the macoron man - at the very very least get the spelling of the title right!!!!!
I hate to be a pedant (even though it is the theme of the entire post), but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron
As far as I can see, their advert is correctly spelled in every particular.
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Some of the spelling throughout these boards is atrocious!
I find that I am less convinced by any argument or job post when the author, a so-called communicator, cannot even convey clarity and command of the Queen's English.
However, I do put some of the blame on such publications as The Oxford English Dictionary and many television commentators who bastardize our native tongue with Americanisms and popular idiom far too frequently.
Ah! I stand corrected, Edwin! I was thinking of macaroons......
I loved the advert that ran on this site for several months for a pupperty workshop in big letters!
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Forgive me Jimmy (especially as I am guilty of many typos) but a check of your original post would not have passed your own test!!! That having been said, as already mentioned, it can act as a useful filter.
Stephen,
You may think that I have been hoisted up my up my own flagpole but please check out 'LILYS LOVE' in the opportunities section and read the brief, under production details for a comparison.
Jimmy - I have checked out "Lilys (sic) Love" and would guess by the way the sentences are formed, that the writer does not have English as their first language. Knowing that, they should have had the casting checked by someone who DID have English as their first language, of course. Yes - I do think that you have been hoisted "up my up my (sic) own flagpole - again!
"I wouldn't normally OF bothered?" OUCH!!!
Dear All,
Thanks for all the corrections and response to my poorly written post.
In my haste to vent my ire, I fell into a huge trap of my own making.
I future I will consult Lynn Truss when attempting to rant!
Deepest apolgies.
O.K. I made a my typo for 'apologies'
Lol, lol,lol! Ha, ha!
You 'made a my typo'? I'm beginning to think you're doing this deliberately Jimmy! ;-)
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