Spellings Matter
I have long been following some of my friends' blogs and looks like some of them have nice experiences with different topics from the Philippine Star.
Before, Jo of WitsandNuts had this post on her blog entitled Was that Indicative Plagiarism? And most who read that, turned PhilStar's leaves in order to get ahold of the article. After that, the apology came out.
A few months after that, another writer-plagiarist came out in a different article about Metallica.
What I am going to share to you now, is not one that if of the same wing as plagiarism but the sensitivity of the writers in PhilStar to comments given them.
This friend has been a writer of so many articles already, and is quite OC in spellings and other stuffs re: Journalism. Of course, we must be OC especially in our readings, because for me, spellings matter, we were all told to check our spellings even when we were in pre-school.
This is really a petty subject though, but you might want to check it out here in order to know the details.
True, had the writer been subjective and taken the matter lightly, and corrected and thanked the commentor, it could have ended right there and then, but then, I guess he was too proud to admit the mistake, and disapproved the comment, but still made that correction anyway. The comment I say, was of pure intention to correct the spelling and not to do anything negative to PhilStar.
Hay, I guess we really have to observe proper standards in our writing, and not to mention Good Manners.
No one is perfect, we sometimes make mistakes, but when we make mistakes and others have corrected us, let us be thankful. These corrections are there to help us achieve excellence.
Perfection is a destination no one has ever been to, that's why God gave us eyes to see others' mistakes, but has given us the mind to think what we must rightly do.
Before, Jo of WitsandNuts had this post on her blog entitled Was that Indicative Plagiarism? And most who read that, turned PhilStar's leaves in order to get ahold of the article. After that, the apology came out.
A few months after that, another writer-plagiarist came out in a different article about Metallica.
What I am going to share to you now, is not one that if of the same wing as plagiarism but the sensitivity of the writers in PhilStar to comments given them.
This friend has been a writer of so many articles already, and is quite OC in spellings and other stuffs re: Journalism. Of course, we must be OC especially in our readings, because for me, spellings matter, we were all told to check our spellings even when we were in pre-school.
This is really a petty subject though, but you might want to check it out here in order to know the details.
True, had the writer been subjective and taken the matter lightly, and corrected and thanked the commentor, it could have ended right there and then, but then, I guess he was too proud to admit the mistake, and disapproved the comment, but still made that correction anyway. The comment I say, was of pure intention to correct the spelling and not to do anything negative to PhilStar.
Hay, I guess we really have to observe proper standards in our writing, and not to mention Good Manners.
No one is perfect, we sometimes make mistakes, but when we make mistakes and others have corrected us, let us be thankful. These corrections are there to help us achieve excellence.
Perfection is a destination no one has ever been to, that's why God gave us eyes to see others' mistakes, but has given us the mind to think what we must rightly do.
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Kagaya nito sa comment ko. May mali sa pagkakasulat..:)
Salamat!
as with the spelling, being an editor, i can say that spellings do matter, yes, because that is what we do. but i guess for me, it's not really an end all. i've always believed that mistakes do happen, and i can be very tolerable of these small "spelling mishaps", as long as these are very, very minimal in cases like these nga lang, being a major publication, pag naulit, ibang usapan na. baka naman kasi hindi kasama sa spell check nila ang Sarangani. :)