Why is ubuntu.com rife with bad grammar?

[KiwiNZ]

it is not an English test

[poebae]

it is not an English test

Yes, but the website is directly representative of the operating system that shares its name, and little things like grammatical errors could turn someone off giving it a try. If you were a prospective employer, you'd have second thoughts about hiring someone who had such mistakes on their resume/CV, would you not?

As ridiculous as that might sound, there's greater harm than most people realise in perpetuating the myth that "because anything Linux is free, it mustn't be of a professional standard".

Try to tell me with a straight face that you wouldn't have simply skipped over my post if I wUz TyPInG LyK disZ~~!!

First impressions last.

Besides, it wouldn't take that much work to correct such things, so I'm all for a crack team of logophiles perusing the website and weeding out any imperfections.

[ratmandall]

Yes, but the website is directly representative of the operating system that shares its name, and little things like grammatical errors could turn someone off giving it a try. If you were a prospective employer, you'd have second thoughts about hiring someone who had such mistakes on their resume/CV, would you not?

As ridiculous as that might sound, there's greater harm than most people realise in perpetuating the myth that "because anything Linux is free, it mustn't be of a professional standard".

Try to tell me with a straight face that you wouldn't have simply skipped over my post if I wUz TyPInG LyK disZ~~!!

First impressions last.

Besides, it wouldn't take that much work to correct such things, so I'm all for a crack team of logophiles perusing the website and weeding out any imperfections.

Not everyone that uses Ubuntu and linux in general come from English speaking backgrounds, quite a few of people that use Ubuntu come from Germany, Brazil, India, some Asian countries.

[stinger30au]

Any examples?.

wot r u sayink???

wees dont nows what wees typung or sumfink???

sum tymes me fungirs push da rong buttons ya now


and me spellink checka is bruk to ya now

gees gives me a brek huh??

[poebae]

Not everyone that uses Ubuntu and linux in general come from English speaking backgrounds, quite a few of people that use Ubuntu come from Germany, Brazil, India, some Asian countries.

That's not a valid reason not to have good grammar on the website.

The last time I checked, the potential Ubuntu userbase for English-speaking users was in the billions and growing, which isn't something you can discount by saying "The whole world doesn't speak English, you know".

[lisati]

wot r u sayink???

wees dont nows what wees typung or sumfink???

sum tymes me fungirs push da rong buttons ya now


and me spellink checka is bruk to ya now

gees gives me a brek huh??

no disrespect intended to my fellow countrymen who have contributed to this thread, but please excuse me while I go and play with my pet sheep.

[benhur99ph]

That's not a valid reason not to have good grammar on the website.

The last time I checked, the potential Ubuntu userbase for English-speaking users was in the billions and growing, which isn't something you can discount by saying "The whole world doesn't speak English, you know".

I agree. That's why we should try and report this stuff to the webmaster. I'm sure they can find a way to fix this. If they are too busy to do so then they can just ask the community to help with pointing out the errors and how to fix it. I'll try doing it in my spare time this week. Anyone who's got free time in their hands, I ask you to do the same.

[gn2]

None of the examples in post 9 in any way detract from the meaning which the writer intended to convey, or in any way introduce anything which could be construed as an error likely to cause confusion or misunderstanding on the part of anyone who happened to browse to the ubuntu.com website in the hope of finding some useful information.

[billgoldberg]

It should be "None of these problems are huge"
Yeah, some of that looks a bit like really minor stuff you would see if a writer was tired or something. Not really major.

lol

The pot blaming the kettle.

[mentallaxative]

Yes, but the website is directly representative of the operating system that shares its name, and little things like grammatical errors could turn someone off giving it a try. If you were a prospective employer, you'd have second thoughts about hiring someone who had such mistakes on their resume/CV, would you not?

If somebody loses interest in trying a new operating system over grammatical errors on the web site, I'd say they are looking for faults in the wrong place.

I hope the OP has notified whoever is in charge.