While walking down the hallway at my faculty this afternoon, I saw this sort-of professional poster. Oh well, the Institution of Engineers Malaysia, Student Chapter Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (IEM-UTM) just had their recruitment drive. I like to read posters and notice posted on any notice board. I get the satisfaction in judging whether that poster is a thumb-up or a thumb-down. Usually, I will go scouting for spelling mistakes or grammar errors. During my undergraduate years, my friend Zhili and I really like to spend some time commenting on posters. Most of the time, we were taken aback by those mistakes and errors which should not had happened.
As to provide you a solid proof that I am not telling lies, I grabbed a shot of the poster with my new SE W660i.
Look at it! I shall first address the first mistake (the use of past tense) and secondly the improper use of acronym. The organizer should have written the above sentence as “IEM-UTM is going to hold an INTERVIEW for the ExCo recruitment term 2008/2009″. Mind you, in English there is no such word as exco. I presume the organizer is talking about supreme council or executive committee or the Board. The correct acronym for Executive Committee is ExCo (Source: thefreedictionary.com).
It’s kind of “mempersiasoikan” for a well-known organization like IEM-UTM to make even a single silly mistake. I don’t care what kind of excuses they would give for making such mistakes should they stumble upon my blog by chance. Quite a number of organizations in my University failed to double check or have someone proof read their announcements/posters/notices/brochures and etc. To me that’s the most ridiculously thing to do.
A small mistake when portrayed means the organization or business is UNPROFESSIONAL. What’s next? I shall post some similar mistakes I found on PELTAC’s poster. I will!
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LOL…
You know it has become something so common that if you truly find something really up to the professional standard in presentation on the notice boards anywhere in Malaysia…
It would be something out of the ordinary.
It just shows how little effort was put into the whole thing in the first place. If they meant serious business, there was completely no room for such silly blunders.
Dan, you have all my support. Nowadays these kids just take posters / banners for granted, as if they are really in some lousy primary / secondary schools instead of pursuing their professional degree in a university. Like what Robin had stressed, it is totally unacceptable for those “professionals” to not screening out these tiny mistakes.
robin: Sometimes even those MNCs or listed companies made mistakes. I have to agree with you that as business is concern, there’s no room for these kind of blunders to happen.
ColourfulWorld: It’s fun going around looking for mistakes though. Well, I hope my readers won’t go through my blog looking for spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Haha. I am, afterall, not an enterprise or business, I am alone writing my blog. Those organizations have at least a team of individuals working on posters or banners.
Hahaha.. Blame me pula.. Actually got more things for you to complain about if you really wana be picky.. the title “exco recruitment FOR THE term 2008/09″ is one. However I thing I can’t stomach is the “Serve the Committee” crap. It’s like they want me to be a slave and serve my masters, the Committee. Serve IN the committee much better on the eyes.. But then its just me - lah… and I’m too free.
zhili,
You’re the man! Haha. Well thanks for pointing out the other mistakes. My bad… I wasn’t that observant enough. When will you finish your training course and come back to Malaysia?
Me too!Whenever I came upon mistakes on blog,I always feel like commenting on their mistakes!But then that will be too mean since I possibly got a lot of those mistakes in my blog too…
You’re a virgo too!perfectionistic people like us is highly allergic to small details!LOL
evolna,
OOps… You knew I am a Virgo too, a perfectionist, a mistake/error killer… Haha. Well, I prefer reading blogs with less mistakes (impossible to have no mistakes at all, human error mah…). Makes my life easier not to guess what the author is writing or trying to express.
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