Please! Forgive me if this has been discussed before!
Please! Forgive me if I put this in the wrong forum...
But PLEASE! Tell me Disney has hired some proofreaders!
I have searched for this and found not one single post that told (er-, wrote) about what I am about to tell (er- write to) you.
So here goes:
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Anybody have the Disney Store Best Friends Calendar 2004?
I just flipped the page from July to August just now and was, simply put, shocked.
The August calendar page features the characters from The Lion King: Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa.
The calendar page has a big picture of these three characters and their names underneath, almost semi-transparent behind the actual date boxes.
But what is very fascinating is that the names of these three characters have been BUTCHERED!
Simba is correct, and reads "Simba," but...
you know Timon, the meerkat? Well, you know how the editors at the "Best Friends Calendar" spell his name?
"Timone."
No joking. They add an incorrect "e" to the end of Timon's name.
And that's not the end of it!
You know Pumbaa? Well... apparently Pumbaa's name is not "Pumbaa" at all, but rather "Pumba" with only one "a" at the end.
I'm getting too old for this. I think Disney (and/or whatever company was contracted to produce the calendar) needs to SERIOUSLY consider hiring a full-time proofreader/editor/spellchecker (and if they already have one... well my oh my, he or she needs to be fired because s/he ISN'T doing his or her job!).
I have noticed SO many typographical errors in Disney communications (for instance, I just got the shareholder invitation to submit photos for the Disneyland mega-photo collages... and, yup, you guessed it... on the release form, the writer misused the contraction "it's" when s/he really wanted to use the word "its" as a possessive).
It's not even funny anymore.
To Eisner and his cronies: Please hire an editor/spellchecker so these embarrassing typographical errors are not released to the public in huge doses. It's really bothering me. It's irksome and embarrassing. Please get an editor on the staff. This is truly appalling.
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Please! Forgive me if I put this in the wrong forum...
But PLEASE! Tell me Disney has hired some proofreaders!
I have searched for this and found not one single post that told (er-, wrote) about what I am about to tell (er- write to) you.
So here goes:
[rant]
Anybody have the Disney Store Best Friends Calendar 2004?
I just flipped the page from July to August just now and was, simply put, shocked.
The August calendar page features the characters from The Lion King: Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa.
The calendar page has a big picture of these three characters and their names underneath, almost semi-transparent behind the actual date boxes.
But what is very fascinating is that the names of these three characters have been BUTCHERED!
Simba is correct, and reads "Simba," but...
you know Timon, the meerkat? Well, you know how the editors at the "Best Friends Calendar" spell his name?
"Timone."
No joking. They add an incorrect "e" to the end of Timon's name.
And that's not the end of it!
You know Pumbaa? Well... apparently Pumbaa's name is not "Pumbaa" at all, but rather "Pumba" with only one "a" at the end.
I'm getting too old for this. I think Disney (and/or whatever company was contracted to produce the calendar) needs to SERIOUSLY consider hiring a full-time proofreader/editor/spellchecker (and if they already have one... well my oh my, he or she needs to be fired because s/he ISN'T doing his or her job!).
I have noticed SO many typographical errors in Disney communications (for instance, I just got the shareholder invitation to submit photos for the Disneyland mega-photo collages... and, yup, you guessed it... on the release form, the writer misused the contraction "it's" when s/he really wanted to use the word "its" as a possessive).
It's not even funny anymore.
To Eisner and his cronies: Please hire an editor/spellchecker so these embarrassing typographical errors are not released to the public in huge doses. It's really bothering me. It's irksome and embarrassing. Please get an editor on the staff. This is truly appalling.
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