Boron Elgar said...

> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:14:01 -0400, Stan Horwitz >
> wrote:
>
>>In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
>>
>>> Look at a box of Trader Joe's "Joe's O's" (a Cheerios knock-off). Look
>>> at the Nutritional Facts panel. See the vitamin B12 25% line?
>>>
>>> Notice the next line... Manesium 8%
>>>
>>> Uh-oh... should be Magnesium 8%
>>>
>>> First typo I've ever found.
>>>
>>> Called it in. No lifetime supply reward.
>>
>>Try reading technical documentation for software and hardware. Rarely do
>>I read such a document and not find at least one grammatical or typing
>>error. This is common for products made outside the United States, but a
>>lot of the documentation I read was written right here in the good old
>>USA.
>
>
> Try reading newspapers or online news sources or almost anything else
> that doesn't go through the more rigorous proofreading that a human
> provides, but relies instead on speelchuckers.
>
> Boron


Sure but a spell checker worth it's salt should've flagged "manesium." The
fact that a typo slipped by says that somebody dropped the ball BIG TIME in
the art department. Imagine if that happened to US currency? IN GOD WE
TRUSST?

Andy