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Tess · #1 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007

There is at least one glaring error in this press release (actually, two - the same error repeated TWICE) There may be other issues here - but I was wondering what *you* see wrong here?

Check it out and post back with the answer!
http://prmac.com/release-id-1252.htm

Rebecka Melson · #2 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007

The main thing I notice is the inappropriate use of apostrophe's throughout the whole thing, as well as misspelling her keywords. I'm not an English major by any means, but based on her writing skills, I wouldn't hire her.

Tess · #3 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007

EXACTLY!
Thanks Rebecka

vainparadise · #4 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007

I read that one this morning and just shook my head!

virtual writing · #5 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007

As VAs, we really should be very careful about our possessives and plurals. The article is pretty ridiculous in that department, though relatively correct otherwise. Still, I am always in awe of anyone who works professionally in a language that is not native, which I suspect is the case here.

Tess · #6 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007

It is unfathomable to me just how BAD our grasp as a nation is on our own language. We have gotten l.a.z.y.

Kerans VA · #7 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007

I especially like the VA site I came across that offered (for no less than $40/an hour) copy writing and proof-reading services, sigh.

jeannedb · #8 (**permalink**) 01-01-2008

She's also a bit of a plagiarist.

Not sure if this link will work but it's via Copyscape.com

ciboney · #9 (**permalink**) 01-01-2008

Oh Oh -that is terrible. I think she should have solicited assistance with the site. I'm most concerned about the plagarism part though.

jeannedb · #10 (**permalink**) 01-01-2008

I just wanted to clarify that my link above is the site that's being copied from. I would have chalked some of the phraseology up to just possible similar coincidences, but that last line is pretty much verbatim.