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While visiting lego.com, I sometimes see incorrect words mixed in, here and there. I think it's kinda cute. But yesterday, I noticed -three- typos in one product's description alone. Now I'm beginning to wonder how this happens. Is TLC using OCR to (...) (21 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) LOL! Ha ha! (...) Or maybe they're using a bad-quality laptop like me - It's fairly hard to type on this hunk of I-can't-download-3-M...s-anymore! (That's pretty sad considering I have only a couple things installed: StarCraft, (a computer (...) (21 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I have noticed this more and more in every branch of media: catalogues, magazines, novels, etc. I think it's due to the reliance on computer spell-checking instead of honest-to-goodness proof-reading. The biggest errors I've seen involve using (...) (21 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) When I was the editor of my college paper, I put in the quotation under the index key-- "Spelling slips and grammatical gaffs are purposely placed for the perfectionists to point out." I tried my derndest to get ridda all speeling misteaks, (...) (21 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) It doesn't? I guess you never worked a stint as a grammarian... (21 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.dear-lego)
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"Suzanne Rich" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:HEHsJz.2F6@lugnet.com... (...) Have you ever read the descriptions for the firs Bionicle creatures? They're all mad-libs: With _adjective_ _noun_, _name_ are giant _animal_-like creatures. (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Oh, stint means something? I didn't know, but please keep in mind my b-day is in 1992... Matt C. (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hey I found two typos in a 2002 Summer S@H advertisement for 6740 Xtreme Tower -- this is what it said: Xtreme stunts start here! The Xtreme Tower is the center of the action on LEGO Island. While Sky practices her skateboard tricks on the railings, (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) stint (n) a: a definite quantity of work assigned b : a period of time spent at a particular activity example: "I served a brief stint as a waiter." (...) Matt... my birthday is about 24 years before yours and I still don't know what some (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.fun)
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(...) What typos? "Informaniac"? This is not necessarily a typo, but possibly a pun: inform, "inform-maniac". If I'm missing something, let me know! :) Mike (21 years ago, 11-May-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) ...Or maybe they just changed his name, 'cause according to set 2181 ((URL) and LEGO Island (not sure about LEGO Island 2...) his name is the Infomaniac... (no R) (...) Hi. Matt C. (21 years ago, 11-May-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Me too :) (...) I was too lazy to go down and look it up, (I was upstairs) (...) Hi. Matt C. (21 years ago, 11-May-03, to lugnet.fun)
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(...) He definitely was an Infomaniac. I hope they didn't cave into some kind of pressure and change his name because when you say it aloud it sounds like... wait, how old did you say you were? :-) A typo that stuck was the infamous Sam Sanister. I (...) (21 years ago, 11-May-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) 10. :) (...) I know he was Sam Sinister in the Egypt series, but the Jungle series he was Sanister, the dino place I dunno, and the Mt. Everest or whatever it's Sinister. I never knew that until you said that, then I looked into some of my old (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.dear-lego)
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