The presidents facebook page is littered with basic grammatical mistakes and riddled with eye-plucking spelling errors. I thought we have learnt our lessons from Ben Malors debut press release. Just yesterday, a press release on the asylum seekers in Brazil had religious spelt as relgious. I thought our siblings on the other divide would have spotted it and make a gain, but I didnt chance any remark to that effect. I am allergic to spelling errors and typos. Sometimes I pick a document and the first thing my eye will spot will be a typo/error, obviously not out of conscious effort to identify a problem in it. My private work sometime ago thought I was out of malice keen in spotting mistakes in documents until they understood me. My ordinary self and colleagues were able to manage the problem and keep it at bay. For Heavens sake, this is the highest of office of the land. No excuses! I consider spelling error as more grievous and unacceptable than grammatical mistakes - you may be able to defend the latter but you dare not the former. As a matter of fact, if I am reading anything, and identify a few spelling errors or typos, I wont continue. The wrong spelling of a word has the propensity of overwriting the correct one in your head. The admin of the presidents facebook page must sit up. Managers of presidential circulars must up their game. And perchance, spare us all the shame of being Ghanaian on a social media. Pedantic is the the word. The presidency should note: circulars are created with Microsoft Office Word and by default autocorrect, grammar and spelling check preclude words typed in UPPER CASE. Get an expert to configure your word processor application to check for spelling or grammar in all cases (lower case, upper case, title case, sentence case etc). Or better still type everything in lower case first and change titles and subtitles to upper case. The shortcut key for toggling between cases is Shift + F3 after highlighting the text. Does this require a robotic scientist? Lest I forget, I am not immuned to grammar flaws and dont assess me because I am me and myself. I dont represent anyone on facebook.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:07:00 +0000
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