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Photo Forum / Film Photography / Medium format / October 2006Hasselblad website full of typos
I'm actually appalled when I see typos on websites, but when it comes to a company that sells products at over $1000 you'd think they'd know how to use a spell checker. Here's a message I sent to Hasselblad: Typo's say a lot about well you focus on details and from what I've seen lately on your site you guys are shoddy! Check out your new magazine you're going to release. Have someone that speaks English proof-read it. I was going to subscribe until I read some of the articles. They're horrible. To think you were a well respected company at one point. Spot the typo. This is for your X-series scanner. http://www.hasselbladusa.com/products/scanners/flextight-x1.aspx: Max optical resolution: 35 mm 60 mm 4"x5" 6300 dpi 3200 dip 2040 dpi This is for your contact list. http://www.hasselbladusa.com/about-hasselblad/contact-us.aspx: Your Email adresse hee-hee. I had a typo myself. I guess I don't focus on details...then again, I'm not selling $1000 products. > I'm actually appalled when I see typos on websites, but when it comes to a > company that sells products at over $1000 you'd think they'd know how to [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Your Email adresse >hee-hee. I had a typo myself. That *always* happens to those who start spelling flames. As it turns out either my email address is blocked at Hasselblad or info@hasselblad.com and info@vicotorhasselblad.com isn't working. I keep getting my messages bounced, so they'll never know about the errors on their pages. >>hee-hee. I had a typo myself. > > That *always* happens to those who start spelling flames. > As it turns out either my email address is blocked at Hasselblad or > info@hasselblad.com and info@vicotorhasselblad.com isn't working. I > keep getting my messages bounced, so they'll never know about the > errors on their pages. Maybe they have a spell-checker on their incoming email.... Peter > Typo's say a lot about well you focus on details and from what I've > seen lately on your site you guys are shoddy! Check out your new > magazine you're going to release. Have someone that speaks English > proof-read it. I was going to subscribe until I read some of the > articles. They're horrible. To think you were a well respected > company at one point. It should be "Typos", not "Typo's". The conjuctive "and" is unnecessary; use a semicolon or start a new sentence. "Have someone WHO speaks English". "They're horrible." A contraction in a two-word sentence is unacceptable. Your last sentence is incomplete. -- Thanks for playing. >> Typo's say a lot about well you focus on details and from what I've >> seen lately on your site you guys are shoddy! Check out your new [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > -- > Thanks for playing. And look again at the first sentence. [Typo's say a lot about well you focus on details and from what I've seen lately on your site you guys are shoddy!] See anything missing? >>> Typo's say a lot about well you focus on details and from what I've >>> seen lately on your site you guys are shoddy! Check out your new [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > See anything missing? Yes. I gave him some slack. :) >>>> Typo's say a lot about well you focus on details and from what I've >>>> seen lately on your site you guys are shoddy! Check out your new [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Yes. I gave him some slack. :) Too kind! :o) >>> See anything missing? >> >> Yes. I gave him some slack. :) > > Too kind! :o) Yikes! >Spot the typo. You know, Swedes. -espen Norway PS: Many write "lense" these days, when they mean "lense". ds  Signaturehttp://www.seland.org/ > PS: Many write "lense" these days, when they mean "lense". ds One would hope so. >> PS: Many write "lense" these days, when they mean "lense". ds > >One would hope so. "Lens", of course! "Lense" is wrong. -espen Signaturehttp://www.seland.org/ >>>PS: Many write "lense" these days, when they mean "lense". ds >> >>One would hope so. > > "Lens", of course! "Lense" is wrong. Considering that English is a bastard language to begin with, continuing evolution of the language may include variants such as lense. I always thought lense was a British variant, but apparently not, though nobody has found the origin of it to my knowledge. Cheers, Alan Signature-- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. >>>> PS: Many write "lense" these days, when they mean "lense". ds >>> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Cheers, > Alan The origin of "lense" to mean "lens" is from the illiterati meaning "pretentious optical device." SignatureMichael | "He's dead, Jim." [---] >I always >thought lense was a British variant, but apparently not, though nobody >has found the origin of it to my knowledge. One could surmise that someone mistakenly formed the singular by removing an "s" from the plural form "lenses" (which is correct). It is also very close to the German "Linse". The word Lens is derrived from the shape of the first lenses which had double convex surfaces like a Lentil Bean. Lens, Lentil, it goes way back. > The word Lens is derrived from the shape of the first lenses which had > double convex surfaces like a Lentil Bean. Lens, Lentil, it goes way > back. Doesn't explain the etymology of "lense" though. Nor "derrived". ;-) Signatureinvalid = com > >>>PS: Many write "lense" these days, when they mean "lense". ds > >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > thought lense was a British variant, but apparently not, though nobody > has found the origin of it to my knowledge. Could you have thought that because it sounded like Olde Worlde spelling? ;-) Peter > Could you have thought that because it sounded like Olde Worlde > spelling? > > ;-) Being an Olde Pharte methinks ye be korect. Oh, BTW, the Olde Worlde English had no spelling standards per se. Seriously. The invention of the moveable type printer was the mechanism upon which the very idea of standard spelling arose wherein the printers initiated certain standards; they were required to be literate in at least two languages. The dictionary came much later. > Could you have thought that because it sounded like Olde Worlde spelling? Makes sense to me, Browne. Signature-- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. > > Could you have thought that because it sounded like Olde > > Worlde spelling? > > Makes sense to me, > Browne. LOLE! > Considering that English is a bastard language to begin with, > continuing evolution of the language may include variants such as > lense. I always thought lense was a British variant, but apparently > not, though nobody has found the origin of it to my knowledge. Semi-literate monkeys, perchance? Signatureinvalid = com >> Considering that English is a bastard language to begin with, >> continuing evolution of the language may include variants such as >> lense. I always thought lense was a British variant, but apparently >> not, though nobody has found the origin of it to my knowledge. > > Semi-literate monkeys, perchance? Again, English is a bastard language. You would have a hard time reading english from 400 years ago. In 400 years it won't have changed as much as communications (media, entertainment, internet, etc.) will tend to stabilize it. That is if society as we know it exists in 400 years... I sincerely have my doubts. More likely we'll be about 1B people (or less) in a post-cheap-energy/post-plague agrarian-hunter-gatherer phase. Cheers! Alan. Signature-- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. >>>> PS: Many write "lense" these days, when they mean "lense". ds >>> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > thought lense was a British variant, but apparently not, though nobody > has found the origin of it to my knowledge. I always assumed that there was a camera store chain in the US called "Ye aulde lense shoppe"... |
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