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News & ArtsFriday, November 16, 2012
Religion / Language I May Not Remember the Sabbath, but at Least I Remember How to Spell It
Posted by Goldy on Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:14 AM
I'm not generally in a good position to make fun of other people's typos, but at least mine aren't carved in stone:
OKLAHOMA CITY - A Ten Commandments monument was installed Thursday on the north grounds of the state Capitol. ... The creators misspelled Sabbath on the Oklahoma monument.
Oops.
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@20, I don't know for sure, but the basic shapes of "e" and "a" are similar in that blackletter/medieval typeface. They can probably fill in improperly engraved areas with some kind of rockdust/resin mixture, polish it smooth, and then re-engrave the letter and re-do whatever kind of pigment or oxidation they use to emphasize the contrast between the letters and the natural stone color.
They still find and repair spelling mistakes in the Vietnam Memorial, and didn't they have to re-engrave a whole section of the MLK memorial in DC?
They still find and repair spelling mistakes in the Vietnam Memorial, and didn't they have to re-engrave a whole section of the MLK memorial in DC?
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Ritze said that the monument company is aware of the typo and that it will be easy to fix.
I'm actually curious, how?
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Well, since they don't actually follow the Ten Commandments, (How priceless is it that they created a graven image that commands not to create graven images?) why bother getting the spelling correct? Maybe God will send some divine magical spell checking to auto-correct it.
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@6: Oklahoma City is into that kind of bullshit. The State Capitol building was famous for being the only one without a dome. A decision was made some time in the 90's to build one and it is garish as all get-out. The interior is basically Oklahoma's creation myth and settlement, with Jesus peering out from behind rocks in every scene (I'm exaggerating, but he's definitely a key player). Also, all of the project's corporate donors (Walmart, Hobby Lobby, etc.) were inscribed in the base of the dome, so when legislators come to work, they're reminded who holds the purse-strings.
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Better a misspelled word than something important. Like, say, giant underground vaults full of drinking water. Vaults that weren't designed to the correct standards.
Boy, them Okies sure is stoopid, eh?
Boy, them Okies sure is stoopid, eh?
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Well I'm sure they're telling themselves that spelling doesn't count because God's Word shines through. Isn't that the excuse Christians give for conflicting, ambiguous translations?
Idiocracy in Oklahoma. Spend less money on basketball arenas and more on literacy and maybe you'll get the unconstitutional dogmatic monuments right.
Idiocracy in Oklahoma. Spend less money on basketball arenas and more on literacy and maybe you'll get the unconstitutional dogmatic monuments right.
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