Originally Posted by
Rodney
What a nice way to say it.
Ok, spelling and sewing aren't necessarily the same thing but poor spelling and grammar in a business ad really scare me. This one was a lot more than a few typos.
Rodney
Originally Posted by
KenmoreRulesAll
Could be a case of ESL (Quebecoise? Her name being 'Marie'...?). Makes me want to give her some mending to do just to help her out. Do you think that's her surreptitious business plan -- the Pity Plan?
In today's day, with browsers and tablets and word processors that tell you when you've spelled things wrong and are a grammatical disaster (within reason, of course), I don't see a valid reason - especially in business documentation - to have something that poorly presented, ESL or not.
In fairness, my "real work" is as a technical business analyst so I'm particularly sensitive to it but it sets a particular image of the writer in a person's mind when they see that sort of lack of attention to detail or pride in one's workmanship. If the person has little pride in what they create as far as advertising (Resume, CV, an Ad on a local Buy and Sell), I won't take something to them for fear that their pride of workmanship also doesn't extend to their craft.
For the record, it doesn't seem to matter what profession people are in. I had to have this talk with an engineer once. He didn't care what his resume looked like, it only had to get him in the door. I had to explain (repeatedly) that his resume was slamming doors on him.