You Cannot Be Serious, # 74

This fairly short piece of text is marked by confusion, due to a failure to proofread before posting — or since: the mangle, submitted by Dr Faustus a month ago was still in place as of this morning — and an absence of any of the hyphens required by the rules of grammar and for the sake of clarity, as well as inconsistency in the positioning of the registered trademark symbol:

Link: Vitae, ‘Vitae Three Minute Thesis competition’

by the until the end of June; Three Minute Thesis competition; Vitae hosted

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 221

The last of the competency-test mangles submitted by Dr Faustus contains more spelling errors, more random capitalization and an ill-checked interrogative formulation:

Source: Numerical Reasoning Test

passanger, carrage, which how much more; capitalization

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 220

More competency test mangles from Dr Faustus. Today’s example seems to be mainly about random capitalization, although ‘£1000-worth’ might better express the purchases, or reordering resulting in ‘at £1000’:

Source: Numerical Reasoning Test

Rice; august; Maize; £1000 of Rice/Maize

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 219

From the competency test featured yesterday, Dr Faustus now sends problems with prepositions:

Source: CEB — SHL Talent Measurement

talk on her phone 7,000 minutes; suited for

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 218

Dr Faustus seems to have been doing some online competency tests, and finding various mangles. Today’s include an accidental substitute, some American spelling that seems to have crept onto the global company’s British website, a stray bit of code, and some rather dubious logic:

Source: CEB — SHL Talent Measurement

traveled; causalities for casualties; [+ logic + <]

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 5

Following on from yesterday's post on spellchecking versus proofreading, here's a live online example of one of the problematic phrases listed:

(In the interests of kindness, I've obscured the poster's name and not put in a link; but the post is still freely available on the internet. At least the problematic word was spelt right in the reference to the business…)