Watching 48 Hours: Innocence Lost on CBS

[LiberalFighter]

It occurred in Austin TX.

They showed a sign on the door to an interrogation room at the police to be quite. Not quiet but quite.

[Dawson Leery]

1. What are you talking about?

[RKP5637]

2. Maybe a better name for US is United Stupidity. n/t

[southerncrone]

5. The dumming down of Amurka worked.

It's the only way the extremely rich, powerful minority could gain & maintain power for so long.

[mike r]

3. Notorious case. Somebody is getting away with murder

It was a truly horrific and brutal crime.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/09/48hours/main6076933.shtml

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Sign at our library---no addmission.

[murielm99]

6. What are they trying to say?

That they don't charge people to use the library, or "keep out?"

Or, no missions may be added? Huh?

[Curmudgeoness]

20. It is a Keep Out sign. But who cares what they are saying. It isn't

spelled right.

[Sal Minella]

7. Caption on some runway fashion photos said

the models run the gamete from size zero to size one.

People need to realize that spell-check is part of the problem.

[Curmudgeoness]

21. Hee hee hee. No THAT is tiny. nt

[southerncrone]

8. LIBRARY!! Do they not have a dictionary there!! LOL

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Sure they do, but how does having a dictionary help if you don't know how to

spell the word to look it up?

Duh!

[southerncrone]

12. What people used for decades to find the spellings of words.

It does take time, patience & diligence.....all lacking in today's society.

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. Well, you just use what we've ALWAHYS used -

spellcheck!

[southerncrone]

14. Spellcheck is a recent development.

It only catches obviously misspelled words, not words that are used in the wrong situation. Spell check is THE PROBLEM most of the time now.....one must PROOFREAD, too. But that assumes one is educated enough to know if a word is used in an improper context.

[Curmudgeoness]

22. You said it. Kids! Spell check! My pet peeve---to/too.

Spell check just does not help with that one. But it makes the writer appear ignorant.

[southerncrone]

23. From/form hem/him their/there/they're so/sow very/vary

The list is endless.........ignorance fully displayed! PROOFREADING is still necessary!

I remember about 15 yrs ago the elementary teachers at my kid's school telling me that it was no longer necessary for them to teach spelling because spell check was making it obsolete. As an educator, I couldn't believe my ears. Now as a HS teacher, I suffer through the consequences of that "educational" decision......so does the rest of the world. These types of decisions are why we are so low on the list of industrialized nations when comparing literacy.(sigh)

[mike r]

18. Yep. Probably hard to find the correct spelling for this

Hey, they spelled 'committee' correctly.

[pacalo]

9. A local restaurant's scripted, neon-lit sign reads "dinning room".

Why the owner didn't send it back to be re-done is beyond me. Maybe it explains why I live in a repug area?

[mike r]

10. Because dinner is for dinning

[pacalo]

16. ROFL! Thanks for that, Mike!

[LiberalFighter]

19. They only have dinner at 5:00 PM? Not 5:01 or later?

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Perhaps they're temporaly OOO

Sign on ice machine at a hotel. Took us a couple days of walking by until we figured it out. The machine is temporarily out of order.

[KatyMan]

17. We noticed that too. Two questions came up:

1. Why did the courthouse leave the sign up?

2. Why did CBS show it? Did they not notice it?