Just days after my last post about our "dieing language", I stumbled across even more published mistakes. An Australian news website I occassionally visit had posted an article which used the word organization. While I don't have anything against legitimate reasons for spelling it with a "z" (zed), there is no legitimate reason I can concieve if the author is Australian and has grown up in Australia.
Who should I blame? The author? The editors? The education systum? At a loss on where to lie the blame, I simply published a comment noting the mistake. And no word. I have previously noticed mistakes on the site and made comments, resulting in prompt changes. However this time it might have been overlooked for some reason. And rather than continue to post annoying comments on the site about how the "z" does not belong in an Australian article (alliteration, always alive!), I thought I would post an update on my language lamentations.
Sure, everyone makes mistakes. In my last entry a friend noticed several mistakes which were unintended, and I made the appropriate changes. But to leave a mistake there? That just seems a bit slack.
It's like an ad I saw once which read something like: "Wanted, a legal secretary. Must be friendly, reliable, apathetic."
Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? Then again, who cares?*
*If anyone knows whether businesses are looking for more "apathetic" workers, I believe that demonstrates my apatheticism completely.
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