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BYU Student Newspaper Calls Mormon Leaders “Apostates”
Orginally published on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 8:21 AM
by Todd Rhoades
Oops... they meant to call their leaders 'apostles', not 'apostates'. No more allowing the spell check to edit the paper, I'm guessing. Especially the front page (where the typo ran). Here's part of the apology and the reasoning behind what happened:
“Our copy editor in charge of the front page, who was under deadline pressure, was using spell check on her page and had misspelled the word apostle,” Evans said. “One of the first options that came up on InDesign’s spell check suggestions was the word apostate. Unfortunately that’s the one she clicked on. It still should have been caught by two more levels of review after that, but again with deadline looming, the worst possible thing happened.”
That got me thinking...
What is the biggest typo that you’ve ever had at your church?
I recently went to an ‘unnamed’ church that used some stock photography for the front of their bulletin with hundreds of little pictures on it. It was a great stock photo, except that it also featured several tiny pictures of women’s butts in string bikinis.
What’s your biggest public ‘oops, we didn’t proof that’ screw up?
Todd
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Post Your Comments:I know of one company that produced fundraising direct mail for political based non-profits. On one particular project they were writing about changes in policies around public schools. Unfortunately the envelope was printed and mailed without the “L” in public which made it Pubic Schools. As you can imagine, it didn’t go over well.
Misspelled words are not anywhere near “the worst thing that could have happened”. Instead of a crisis it should be funny and it should be just another example that people are flawed and make mistakes every day.
The worst things that could have happened are when a child gets sick or a gay person commits suicide after being tormented by evil vicious Christians in the name of God.
Those are truly bad things so lighten up on the misspelled words.
Oh the Lord works in mysterious, and hilarious ways…
I’ve only been here 2 years and in that time I don’t remember any major fubars.
Except maybe saying fubar here is one… Ack.
And Mark, it’s Friday when Todd posts jokes. He got me once or twice before.
But since then I’ve learned that it’s okay to have a sense of humor, even if I am a Christian!!!
Instead of “Pastor Tom will bring the music and the message for this week’s ladies gathering” the bulletin read “Pastor Tom will bring the music and the MASSAGE for this week’s ladies gathering.” There was a larger than usual turnout.
The article from BYU neglected to mention how the school had invested in a next-generation, hyper-aware spell check program. When asked for comment, the spell check program replied, “No, I actually did mean to put, ‘apostates,’ there. That was the correct word.”
BYU has since returned to using movable print presses.
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CS
I went to a concert at a community center several years ago. It was not until I got home that I saw their ad in the back of the program
“The Namacogan Brass Community Orchestra is available for your next wedding, lynching or any other joyous occasion”
I assumed they meant luncheon…
I don’t know, Miller, you know what they say about ‘assume’ - and besides there are a few lynchings that might qualify as joyous occasions...OK, that was in the flesh, but you know what I mean!
You really have to be careful when you’re proofreading things that will be published and seen by the public. However, people should understand that mistakes happen once in a while and not get worked up about it when an unfortunate mistake has been made. Sometimes it ends up being humorous or ironic, so we should all just laugh when that happens instead of getting mad.
Our church was advertising a picnic at the Crab Trap beach. We accidentally had it say Crap Trap. Classy, no?
Is it a typo when it is factual?
I’ve seen worship with the wrong consanant at the end of the word…
You figure it out…
Often in our church our lay-leaders ask me, the ministry leader, to modify an existing document or create a new one basically the day of the event because sometimes they or I forget. Usually this is no problem as we just need to update a date, time, or email address, click “Print” and then hand-out to parents.
Well, the biggest “oops” happened when I send out one evening (after a quick-edit-no-real-proof-reading) a flyer for our boy’s club “Shape ‘N Race” car rally that was coming up. I quickly edited the document, ran the Spell Check, changed some misspelled words, clicked “Print” and handed out 40+ copies to the families as they picked up their boys.
Someone caught my huge blunder, frantically ran the flyer to me, and we proceeded to grab as many flyers as we could from families, even some in their vehicles. The flyer title didn’t read, “SHAPE ‘N RACE” but rather the “C” replaced with a dreaded, “P”. I went completely white in fright. Well, to this day my volunteers still won’t let me live that one down.
So, not even spell-check could fix this blunder
Signed,
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Many years ago, when the Sr. pastor was on vacation the Christian Ed minister gave much attention to getting the new illuminated sign for the church installed to surprise the Sr. Pastor when he returned. Needless to say the Sr. Pastor was not the only one surprised to see the sign in the front of the church that read “Reaching and Nuturing All People for Christ”. The absence of that little ‘r’ in nurturing gave a whole new meaning to ‘new creature in Christ.”
Our church this past weekend asked if anyone “wanted to help with the food panties.” Our worship team started to called it “edible underwear Sunday.”
Thank you very much…
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