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?

[icyfroth]

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@azureline** wrote:

I didn't get you.... or try to..... as I said, it could easily be a typo etc.........

now, why is my wording blue and over to the right??

and.... could have

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you could of too?

your wording is normal colour and on the right side from where I sit, Az 🙂

[azureline**]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@azureline** wrote:

I didn't get you.... or try to..... as I said, it could easily be a typo etc.........

now, why is my wording blue and over to the right??

and.... could have

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you could of too?

your wording is normal colour and on the right side from where I sit, Az 🙂

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on post 28?

[freakiness]

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@icyfroth wrote:

ok ya got me lol

how embarrassment.

I could of graduated from Monash Uni

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😄 I'm fairly sure that's what whoever commented meant  😄

Easy to see why the best proof readers of instructions are those that need those instructions rather than those who already know how to do the task.

[**meep**]

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@icyfroth wrote:

ok ya got me lol

how embarrassment.

I could of graduated from Monash Uni

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I swear there was a double "r" in the title before!!  

[**meep**]

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@azureline** wrote:

I didn't get you.... or try to..... as I said, it could easily be a typo etc.........

now, why is my wording blue and over to the right??

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I just noticed that.  Where did you type it?

[azureline**]

under the copy/paste of the title.

[azureline**]

I know how it happened, I copied the title line (inc OPTIONS)

I deleted OPTIONS and wrote the sentence. When it posted , it went to the right......I think

[**meep**]

aha, ok, that makes sense.

[icyfroth]

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@freakiness wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

ok ya got me lol

how embarrassment.

I could of graduated from Monash Uni

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😄 I'm fairly sure that's what whoever commented meant  😄

Easy to see why the best proof readers of instructions are those that need those instructions rather than those who already know how to do the task.

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"Easy to see why the best proof readers of instructions are those that need those instructions rather than those who already know how to do the task."

erm...whut?

[icyfroth]

OH and I travel on the M5 down to Campbelltown fairly regularly (NSW), passing Hurstville. I did a double-take on one occasion when we passed the the sign for Hurstville and it said Hurtsville instead.

I wish I'd had the presence of mind to take a pic of it because OH didn't believe me.

The next time we passed it had been corrected.