Typos and other spelling errors
 

I don't feel so bad about my typos anymore. Was staying overnight at the Crown Plaza, LAX ( great hotel for Aussies as they have a 7AM check in - which is when our planes seem to arrive ) and was looking through the wine list in the restaurant. Many lovely wines from California, Australia and Chili - the latter I decided not to have as I get reflux and hot things don't help!

My wife and I are with you there!

Pretty funy!

(See, I don't feel so bad about my typos now either).

Ken

Maybe chili wine is a close relative of pepper vodka? (Liz, just to add to the confusion, don't forget that in the US "chilli" is usually spelled "chile".)

Yes Neil but I wonder how much the Amrikans would like it if people could/would not spell the name of their country correctly.

Chile is the way the South American country is spelled.
Chilly refers to weather.
Chili is something you eat. I don't see it spelled chilli at all.

Why are spelling and typos such a big deal? Stuff like that makes the Jay Leno (a comedian)
Show's "Headlines" segment. We laugh and go on.

In Australia it's generally spelt "chilli". A double-L syndrome, maybe, like some forms of some verbs (American "traveled/traveling" vs the British/Aust/NZ (and Canadian?) "travelled/travelling" and so on.

Typos are typos - poor spelling (and grammar, and maths) can and do affect career prospects, hence money in the bank. Chile vs chili vs chilli though are just national variants, neither right nor wrong.

Lizz, didd yew fli onn Quantas?

Let's just hold on there a minute...

I'm just up to getting some of that "BetterBuggerEaterGatorSlayer for those li'l booger/buggers that are travelling from the States to Australia - or is it the other way around?

The Crown Plaza is quite good in LA as is the Doubletree (quite close to the airport and terrific beds!!) No little varmints/critters or lice either!!

Weather here is just beginning to warm up - cherry blossoms have bloomed and gone but cool weather did stay.

Had a lot of excitement when an errant student pilot flew into sacred space here and cleared out quite a few government buildings. Not too many were sure of where they should go to!!

Yep, John in Myami, flu quantas 2 Los Angeleese, Amerika then went on Lan chilli to Leema.
I like Crown Plasa to stay 'caus its got great beds and flexible times.
Was going to come over in January as well but cannot get FF point flights - bugger!
Back to the original spelling of Chile on the wine list. I cannot for the life of me see why a restaurant cannot spell the name of a country properly. If I was Chilian I would not be very pleased. Surely the reason that spelling is so pathetic now is because some people think it is not anything to worry about and is not necessary i.e. snazzy's comments. Bye the way I have no idea who you are taking about Snazzy. Austro/American humour is not my cup of tea.

Here we go again...
Discussions about typos and spelling errors have no place on a travel board for tourists. Topics like this do not make a potential tourist to Australia feel welcome.

I do feel spelling is very important. Proofreading is important but everyone - last time I checked - is human.
Everyone makes mistakes... Perhaps it is hurrying... Perhaps it is due to eyesight... Perhaps it is due to deadlines...Perhaps it is due to someone checking ten thousand spelling papers and losing his or her natural ability to spell...Perhaps it is because they came to the board for information late at night and are half asleep...
Sometimes - as you elude - it is due to incompetence.

What I don't understand is why some people on this board seem to feel they need to point out everyone's typos and mispellings.
Obviously, there is a difference in spelling between the two countries.

As Neil points out in his post, "national variants, neither right nor wrong," yet he took me to task for misspelling Sydney when we were planning a trip there a few months ago.

By the way, Sidney is how the town is spelling in New York, Maine, Kentucky, Nebraska, Iowa, Texas, Ohio, and a few other states.
Sidney - surprisingly - is how it is spelled in British Columbia according to a websearch I did. (I figured it would be with a "y.")
Sydney is how it is spelled in Australia.

I sincerely believe that someone who lives in Sydney would find themselves typing "Sydney" if they were talking about a town in the States with the same name merely out of habit. I would understand, not criticize as seems to be the case here.

Have some compassion and understanding instead of spending time on this board pointing out someone else's mistakes... in this case the printer of the wine list.
No one is perfect.

THIS IS A TRAVEL INFORMATION BOARD, isn't it, Fodor's?

P.S.
"Spelt" is considered incorrect in some countries. "Spelled" is the correct spelling.
So get off your high horse and either give travel information or don't write at all.
Email your comments about errors to each other privately instead of using a public board, please.

Chilian should be Chilean or were using some of that humour in your post?

I'll correct it before someone else does:
"is spelling in New York" should be is spelled in New York..."

Well 'there you go' Snaz, I have just come in from the spelling yard where I have put me 'orse.
Just for the record Snaz try lightening up - if we want to make a funny about youse lot we bloody well will.

PS snaz, it has to be Chilian if it is Chili but I will accept that its Chilean if its Chile.

Fodorites have a long and proud history of applying elastic and sometimes eccentric definitions of what constitutes travel information. Most regular contributors understand that some latitude is necessary to avoid the site sinking into a boring morass of details of hotel/tour/ restaurant recommendations, railway timetables and the like. Despite this, they still go about their business of providing usually helpful advice.

The others, the "what has this got to do with travel?" brigade, tend to raise their heads only when views that conflict with their own are being canvassed, I've noticed.

Snazzy, I'd entirely forgotten that I took you to task for spelling Sydney "Sidney" - now I understand your sensitivity to this subject.

Actually, I'm unrepentant about "Sidney". That's not a national variant in the sense that I was using the term, it's just sloppiness, and the fact that several places in North America are spelt (or spelled) with an "i" may be an explanation, but is not an excuse. I would apply the same criterion to Australians who spell the "Harbor" in Pearl Harbor "Harbour".

Liz's post was light-hearted, and most that followed it have tried to maintain the tone. I am entirely relaxed about the danger that threads like this could deter potential visitors to Australia. For one thing, I'm not sure that we're quite equipped to attend to such sensitive souls - not all tourist facilities have a ready supply of smelling salts to administer to ladies in crinolines who may suffer an attack of the vapours.

BTW - and I'm sure the Devil is making me do this - I think you mean "allude", not "elude"?

Definitely.

Adios.