You know, politicians are really getting with the times, trying to make their campaigns appeal to a younger audience. There are apps and Twitter accounts now where us young folks can “access” our political reps and candidates. And that’s cool, except someone (I’m guessing) on the inside decided to sabotage Mitt Romney’s “I’m With Mitt” free photo app by — of all things — misspelling “America” on one of the templates. I assume a rogue programmer did this because no one would really let this slip through the cracks, and it’s certainly not Mitt’s fault. But either way, people far and wide couldn’t resist turning it into an instant meme: just add photos. Take a look.
I don’t know if they plan on fixing it, but the Internet is running away with it.
I think there’s a subversive programmer in DC who’s out of a job. Just a hunch.
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there’s actually a photograph from when Mitt was head of Bain Venture Capital in which America was spelled incorrectly,
you’d be surprised how many typos slip through even edited published books. i used to walk through the lobby of the North World Trade Tower every day on my way to work. there was a sign etched in brass or some other metal pointing to the elevator banks. it said “Elevavators”. That sign had to have passed many eyes before finally being etched in metal and then hung on the wall. when i mentioned it to coworkers they hadn’t noticed it. eventually the sign was replaced but only after at least a year after i noticed it. who knows how long it had hung there before i noticed it.
the “brains” at Lehman Brothers where i worked decided money could be saved by getting rid of proof readers and requiring those who input text into presentations to proof read their own work. it didn’t even make sense because trained proof readers were paid less than presentation graphics people, untrained in proof reading as we were. beyond that there are numerous studies that show a person cannot be counted on to proof read his or her own work because our brains recognize words in “blocks”, not by reading individual letters so when we read through our own work we often see the intended words and miss typos. in the case of where i worked insult was added to injury because managers, paid way more than proof readers were then required to proof read presentations BUT only after the presentations were already sent out. they’d find mistakes and the graphics people were penalized for having made them but on top of the unfairness of that managers were basically closing the barn doors after the horses got out.
i digressed but don’t assume a typo was made by a rogue programmer.
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I happen to like the typo, I wish I had come up with that. lol.
I think it was intentional. a typo like that doesn’t happen, I tihnk it was a campaign strategy.
daisy / 505 posts
LOL
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love Stephen Colbert. he’d point out that this is a nation of freedom, and that we shouldn’t let the spelling Nazis tell us what is and isn’t the proper way to spell America.