You think you’ve seen everything, and then a 90-year-old gentleman who sits behind you at church hands you his memoir, which was published by a local press, and you see no fewer than FORTY-TWO mistakes in the back-of-the-book material. You’ve got misspelled words, incorrect capitalization, crazy quotation marks, hyphens when you need dashes, hyphens when you don’t need them, commas where they shouldn’t be…every mistake under the sun is made in these two paragraphs.
Here’s the original text, and the text with the numbered mistakes follows.
There’s just no excuse for this.
As printed:
ABC is a combat veteran of WWII 1943 – 1945
…with ‘Mommy’s permission, he joined the United States navy at the age of 17. ABC was born in Northern Illinois the city of Rockford, Illinois 1925. He went to WAR in 1943 in the U. S. NAVY. Under Physical examination Naval medics found the sailor candidate to be too ’color blind’ to serve on a Naval vessel, ”You are now a Naval Seabee!” The Seabees were the construction battalions for the Navy. We built docks for our ships, airfields for our NavaL Flyers, hospitals, roads and camp sites through-out the South Pacific.
ABC, graduated from Drake University under the GI Bill in 1950 claiming a number of degrees of ’learning’ Humanities, Construction, engineering. He earned many fields of endeavor. His classroom was the arena of ’live experience’. His teachers were the ’old men’ of the Seabees in their 30s and 40s. He claims his educators served him ’rewardingly’ for his future life experiences. He claims his book XYZ brings you a synopsis of an education no youth could buy!
Ponder and enjoy XYZ, a collectiom of photos and recordings of a Seabee OF WWII).
With mistakes numbered (before the mistake):
ABC is a combat veteran of [1] WWII [2] 1943 – 1945
…with [3] ‘Mommy’s permission, he joined the United States [4] navy at the age of 17. ABC was born in [5] Northern Illinois [6, 7] the city of Rockford, Illinois [8, 9] 1925. He went to [10] WAR in 1943 in the U. S. [11] NAVY. Under [12] Physical examination [13] Naval medics found the sailor candidate to be too [14] ’color [15] blind’ to serve on a [16] Naval vessel, [17] ”You are now a [18] Naval Seabee!” The Seabees were the construction battalions for the Navy. We built docks for our ships, airfields for our [19, 20] NavaL [21] Flyers, hospitals, roads and [22] camp sites [23] through-out the South Pacific.
[24] ABC, graduated from Drake University under the [25] GI Bill in 1950 claiming a number of degrees of [26, 27] ’learning’ [28, 29] Humanities, [30] Construction, [31] engineering. He earned many fields of endeavor. His classroom was the arena of [32, 33, 34] ’live experience’. His teachers were the [35, 36] ’old men’ of the Seabees in their 30s and 40s. He claims his educators served him [37, 38] ’rewardingly’ for his future life experiences. He claims his book SEABEE brings you a synopsis of an education no youth could buy!
Ponder and enjoy XYZ, a [39] collectiom of photos and recordings of a Seabee [40] OF [41, 42] WWII).
Lemme ask you a question: how the hell do you spell “collection” with an “m”???
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