Comments on: To quote the immortal Wham! http://www.joeboughner.ca/2007/12/04/to-quote-the-immortal-wham/ It's all about communication Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:22:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Julie Wright http://www.joeboughner.ca/2007/12/04/to-quote-the-immortal-wham/comment-page-1/#comment-7430 Julie Wright Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:50:00 +0000 http://www.joeboughner.ca/2007/12/04/to-quote-the-immortal-wham/#comment-7430 Your won to talk -- tonnes? Just joking... I am Canadian but now based in San Diego with an office in Vancouver as well. I agree that typos indicate carelessness--at the very least--and incompetence, at worst. If you're being paid as a communicator, accuracy in all respects must be the basic assumption--the very starting point. If you cannot be counted on for fundamental spelling and grammar accuracy, then how can you be counted on to convey the message accurately? Are you going to do harm, possibly, to the client's image? P.S. Just proofed this comment and found one typo besides the joke typo at top. It's one thing to make a typo or mistake but another to be unaware that you made one at all. Your won to talk — tonnes? Just joking… I am Canadian but now based in San Diego with an office in Vancouver as well. I agree that typos indicate carelessness–at the very least–and incompetence, at worst. If you’re being paid as a communicator, accuracy in all respects must be the basic assumption–the very starting point. If you cannot be counted on for fundamental spelling and grammar accuracy, then how can you be counted on to convey the message accurately? Are you going to do harm, possibly, to the client’s image?

P.S. Just proofed this comment and found one typo besides the joke typo at top. It’s one thing to make a typo or mistake but another to be unaware that you made one at all.

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