National Anthem

[iddee]

""Sorry to be a nit-picker, but it is distracting to me when an otherwise beautiful presentation is marred by such things.  Before I went to law school, I speant 20 years as a journalist, most of the time as a copy editor, and errors like these just cause me to stop short in reading or listening.""

What does "speant" mean?   

[Ben Framed]

Philip

That is an excellent video.  Thanks for posting that.  I just wish the person making it had had a good editor.  I may have heard wrong but I heard the narrator refer numerous times to Fort Henry instead of Fort McHenry.  And there were several things in the on-screen captioning that bothered me, such as "...so proudly we held" instead of "proudly we hailed."

Sorry to be a nit-picker, but it is distracting to me when an otherwise beautiful presentation is marred by such things.  Before I went to law school, I speant 20 years as a journalist, most of the time as a copy editor, and errors like these just cause me to stop short in reading or listening. 

Just call me an old curmudgeon if you want.  That's the way I am, I guess.  If there's a nit in sight, I can't resist picking it. LOL

In law, grammar certainly matters! I fully understand.  "so proudly we held" instead of "proudly we hailed." Prehaps her accent could be the difference? 

Phillip

[John_M]

We aren't the only ones.  Try this one;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_qm3Ym8-k

[Ben Framed]

I do not know what the words are saying but that girl is a bad to the bone pole vaulter...

[John_M]

She's pretty special!  The words to the russian national anthem are pretty neat, they kept the same music as the Soviet anthem but the words are new.

[Dallasbeek]

""Sorry to be a nit-picker, but it is distracting to me when an otherwise beautiful presentation is marred by such things.  Before I went to law school, I speant 20 years as a journalist, most of the time as a copy editor, and errors like these just cause me to stop short in reading or listening.""

What does "speant" mean?   

Iddee, I read that over twice before posting it, and missed the typo both times.  I was a good editor when dealing with other people?s writing, but always had to have my own work edited by someone else.  When I read what I?ve just written, I tend to see what I intended to write, rather than what I actually wrote.  If I put it aside for a time and then go back to it, errors I made become obvious. 

[Dallasbeek]

Philip

That is an excellent video.  Thanks for posting that.  I just wish the person making it had had a good editor.  I may have heard wrong but I heard the narrator refer numerous times to Fort Henry instead of Fort McHenry.  And there were several things in the on-screen captioning that bothered me, such as "...so proudly we held" instead of "proudly we hailed."

Sorry to be a nit-picker, but it is distracting to me when an otherwise beautiful presentation is marred by such things.  Before I went to law school, I speant 20 years as a journalist, most of the time as a copy editor, and errors like these just cause me to stop short in reading or listening. 

Just call me an old curmudgeon if you want.  That's the way I am, I guess.  If there's a nit in sight, I can't resist picking it. LOL

In law, grammar certainly matters! I fully understand.  "so proudly we held" instead of "proudly we hailed." Prehaps her accent could be the difference? 

Phillip

Nah, I think they had spell-check or something involved.  But I see your spell-check let ?prehaps? go through.  Mine just changed it twice to perhaps before I finally convinced it I really meant to type what you wrote.   

[iddee]

Just had to poke a little fun, Dallas.  We all make mistrakes.

[Kathyp]

When I read what I?ve just written, I tend to see what I intended to write, rather than what I actually wrote.

I do exactly the same thing.  I re-read for errors and still miss them.  Two days later, there they are!   

[BeeMaster2]

Same here. It is easy to see errors in what others wrote. I skip right over my own.
Jim Altmiller

[John_M]

I had a standing rule in the office I used to manage that all correspondance was proof read by someone else for this very reason.
Of course the owner would sabotage us by insisting on a letter being typed 15 minutes before the last mail pickup.  He was also the one that expected that no one ever make a mistake.

[Michael Bush]

?You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten
it.??Voltaire