[MR] Pennsic Independent

[chagankhulan at clan-whitewing.org]

Greetings Lady Glynis and fellow readers,

    I would say I'm of 2 minds on this topic.
    ONE - I have no problem with the contest - kind of a cute idea to
promote reading the whole paper rather than just skimming the
interesting parts. I've seen this done in other publications and
puzzle books and it can be entertaining.
    TWO - An early issue claimed 144 errors. That's an acceptable number
for a paper the size of the PI, but 1066 intentioonal errors?  That's
a bit excessive.  The problem I have with it is that more and more
publications these days have more and more errors that AREN'T
intentional and I find that level of poor grammar, spelling and
punctuation a sad commentary on both the quality of these periodicals
and papers and an even sadder commentary on the quality of our current
educational standards.
     I think I'd rather see a contest that inserted 'clues' or 'code
words' to solve a puzzle than just finding X number of errors. Even
with Spell Check these days I find errors by writers who don't always
have a good grasp of correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.

  A member of the Old School of written communications,

   Chagan


> So, I noticed a little contest that the Pennsic Independent held this
> year involving finding the mistakes in the newspaper.  It started out
> very low, and today's (Friday's) issue claimed there were 1066
> mistakes.  Find them all and you might win a free subscription to the
> PI.  The "mistakes" made the paper difficult for me to read, since
> some of the mistakes were grammatical or had words inserted into the
> articles, and it felt far less professional than I know it to be.
> Even writh the errors being deliberate, and KNOWING they were there, I
> felt very disappointed with the subscription I purchased.  (I
> purchased the PDF subscription since we could only go for the
> weekend.)
>
> What are your thoughts on this?
>
>
> ~Lady Glynis Gwynedd
> Barony of Highland Foorde
> "Have you hugged a harp today?"
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