Why Are Listings Full of Improper Use of Capitalizations?

[Kolstad]

So, I'm a copyeditor for a living. In fact, I'm the senior copyeditor for a major retailer of musical instruments and audio gear that most of you probably know. It's my "day job," but it's not just a day job -- I really care a lot about spelling, grammar, punctuation, and so on and so forth.

TAXI listings OFTEN have punctuation errors. They have inconsistent capitalization, too, as the original poster pointed out.

My own pet peeve is how often TAXI spells famous artists' names incorrectly ("Christina Perry," anyone? And it's Nicole Scherzinger, not Sherzinger. Jason Derulo, not DeRulo. And Jon Mayer and John Mayer are two very different artists. Come on, TAXI.)

But I can forgive all of that. I chalk it up to working quickly. And we usually know what the listings mean. It may not be good English to write "Submit well-structured songs that have super contemporary topline," but we all know that the "s" is missing, and we can mentally fill it in to grasp the meaning of the sentence. It's also not good English to say "Please submit one to three songs online or per CD, include lyrics." But we all know what it means.

You know what bothers me more than grammar, spelling and punctuation errors on TAXI listings? Grammar, spelling and punctuation errors on TAXI critiques.

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[Casey H]

So, I'm a copyeditor for a living. In fact, I'm the senior copyeditor for a major retailer of musical instruments and audio gear that most of you probably know. It's my "day job," but it's not just a day job -- I really care a lot about spelling, grammar, punctuation, and so on and so forth.

TAXI listings OFTEN have punctuation errors. They have inconsistent capitalization, too, as the original poster pointed out.

My own pet peeve is how often TAXI spells famous artists' names incorrectly ("Christina Perry," anyone? And it's Nicole Scherzinger, not Sherzinger. Jason Derulo, not DeRulo. And Jon Mayer and John Mayer are two very different artists. Come on, TAXI.)

But I can forgive all of that. I chalk it up to working quickly. And we usually know what the listings mean. It may not be good English to write "Submit well-structured songs that have super contemporary topline," but we all know that the "s" is missing, and we can mentally fill it in to grasp the meaning of the sentence. It's also not good English to say "Please submit one to three songs online or per CD, include lyrics." But we all know what it means.

You know what bothers me more than grammar, spelling and punctuation errors on TAXI listings? Grammar, spelling and punctuation errors on TAXI critiques.

Wow.... Of all the things to get your underpants in a knot over!

The only time I would care about minor grammar or punctuation errors would be if I truly couldn't understand the listing or critique, in which case I would simply email Taxi about it. (Not that I don't encourage them to get the English right most of the time!).

Maybe you want Taxi to hire a team of copy editors? Of course for that I'm sure you'd be willing to pay $499 a year and $10 per submission?

Thisth is sillly

Casey

[2lane]

Just get me the listings.......that's all I care about!
Happens quite well for me

Steve