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AIBU to expect that a website should do a spell check first???

41 replies

shrimponastick · 28/08/2012 22:34

I can't decide if I fancy the 'gatto' or the parfitta rolls as a dessert.

The muscles sounded tempting though... :)

Someone has paid for this! Surely they should have spell checked first??

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edam · 28/08/2012 23:32

They can spell stroganoff as well. Weird. Love gatto and parfitta rolls!

NovackNGood · 28/08/2012 23:33

Maybe it's an Italian and they are chocolate and strawberry flavour cats?

WineGoggles · 29/08/2012 12:51

Is someone going to email them this link? Grin

ChessieFL · 29/08/2012 12:55

I went to a pub once where the menu advertised sausages made with several species (spices).

We gave them a miss.......

McHappyPants2012 · 29/08/2012 12:58

well i would hope a gala pie had egg in there :)

cinnamonnut · 29/08/2012 13:00

Quite irritating with capital letters to start random words dotted about everywhere, too.

RuleBritannia · 29/08/2012 13:20

And the punctuation could do with some healing. (I know I started a sentence with 'And')

olibeansmummy · 29/08/2012 13:25

Well as its a PDF the website designer probably didn't produce it, he/she was probably jyst sent a copy of an existinf menu, but should have checked it. Dh is a web designer and has had this happen, so he informed the restaurant owners and the menu was corrected before he out it on the website. Luckily it was a new menu that hadn't been printed up yet, so the customers got their menu spell checked for free!

Empusa · 29/08/2012 14:49

Oh god, I love that it's obviously been scanned in (from a well worn copy) so it's obviously been in use a while and nobody has thought to fix it! Grin

cinnamonnut · 29/08/2012 15:17

My mother gets sent text to build into designs for clients, and half the time there are loads of mistakes. She isn't a native english speaker and she's the one who has to correct all the crap.

Naoko · 29/08/2012 15:50

'king prawns muscles'

Commas, my friends. They are important. Yes I do know my misreading technically needs an apostrophe Don't get me started on the spelling.

Naoko · 29/08/2012 15:52

I'm also a little scared of the dessert menu, having just remembered that 'gatto' is Italian for cat....

TheCunningStunt · 29/08/2012 15:59

This is brilliant

Pandemoniaa · 29/08/2012 16:52

I managed to misread "fanned apples" as "fannied apples" so it took me a while to compose myself.

However, in all seriousness, I wouldn't use a company that can't be bothered to get the basic details right. If they are as cavalier about their catering as they are their promotional material then the results will be dire.

Even if your business is catering, rather than publishing, say, it is not good enough to allow such a compendium of howling errors to be released into the wider world. I do various graphic design/editing jobs and whilst I've also been given some masterpieces of illiteracy to work with, it is my job to ensure they are corrected. Otherwise I'd be letting the client down.

hiviolet · 29/08/2012 16:59

Oh wow, they decorate the buffet tables with fanned apples, that's right classy that is Grin

HecateHarshPants · 29/08/2012 18:17

"There's no comparison to our standards"

That KILLED me! Grin

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