How Embarassment for Monash University

[icyfroth]

Monash University mocked on Buzzfeed

Monash University has won a mention on one of the internet’s most popular viral news websites, Buzzfeed, but for all the wrong reasons.

The Melbourne university was mocked over a typo in a highly visible advertisement that appeared on a tram shelter in Melbourne last month.

The ad read "What’s more brilliant then a Monash degree," when it should have said "What’s more brilliant than a Monash degree".

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Ok anyone can make a typo , but what happened to proofreading? How many hands would that have gone through before it was signposted, and no-one picked it up?

[azureline**]

It was probably a mistake made by the billboard/printer, not the Monash people................ it happens.

[***super_nova***]

It looks like an ad on a tram stop, it would have been made & placed there by the company that does this sort of thing, not "the university".  Even if the mistake was done by an employee of the uni, it would have been clerical staff member.  I am sure the mistake was noticed and signs taken down fast.

I guess now that LNP government  keeps politics out of media, they have nothing to write/talk about.  I wonder if people will continue to buy papers when the top stories will be like "secretary makes a typo", unless of course the buy it for the 3rd page boob shot.

[icyfroth]

Oh it's the government's boo boo is it?

[freshwater-2]

Approval for that sign must have gone through many hands prior to printing.

Evidently not a proof reader or anyone else with grammar skills

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I am also appalled at the number of real estate firms who cannot spell accommodation....part of their business.

These same agents use 'penultimate' to describe a desirable property....which has virtually the opposite meaning to what they intend.

[the_great_she_elephant]

When the manuscript for my book The Devil's Own, went to the printers it contained a sentence that read:  "He turned to face  Batavia's Graveyard and raised one clenched fist in a grim salute."

The typesetter made one tiny spelling mistake. When the galley proofs came back, I checked them, my editor checked them and I asked a friend to check them - we all missed it and what actually appeared on the page was:  "He turned to face Batavia's Graveyard and raised one clenched fish in a grim salute."

[lakeland27]

'morpoopna' on a bronze plaque outside a new victorian police station or the sign on michaelia cashs office are good examples too

[freshwater-2]

I must say that a clenched fish sounds a bit grim.....but certainly adds to the drama of the moment.

She El.....I can't stop laughing just picturing it.

[cat_mioux]

I like the clenched fish. LOL

[cat_mioux]

A clenched date is rather descriptive too.