I'm not exactly sure how to word my question, so bear with me.

In my day job, I edit children's books. Since I am trained to watch for errors, every so often I see typos or errors in layouts (even my own!). If you catch something, do you point it out or leave it be? What do people prefer?

I don't want to come off as sounding critical. I make mistakes sometimes too, and I would hate to print something with a big error in it, especially because of my job and because I come from a family of English majors who would notice anything. But I realize that it may not be as important to other people. I do think it is most important for a layout to be honest. Maybe a layout is more authentic if it has misspellings or other errors. Plus, I know that we are an international community where not everybody is a native English speaker.

The kinds of errors I'm talking about include misused apostrophes, "then" instead of "than," "your" instead of "you're"--things like that. If you had that type of error in your layout, would you want to know?

I was thinking I could just send the person on private message if I see something. But again, I don't want to come off as the grammar police or anything.

If anybody ever sees anything on my layouts, feel free to shoot me a message! (I know at least one of the layouts I have posted right now has a typo. I saw it after I posted it and haven't had a chance to fix it yet.)

Thanks!

Megan

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I know I would like to get PM if someone sees a typo in my LOs. I just had to reprint a LO at Costco because I didn't noticed a typo.

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Betty

i'd for sure want to know -- a pm would be preferred. sometimes i don't find my typo's until i see it online. but if someone caught it before i did, i'd for sure want to know so i could correct it!

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Wendy Armstrong (aka Scrap'N Girl)
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Yeah a friendly pm would be nice.

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DianneRigdon.com

Totally agree, a private PM would be appropriate. I would hate to print out a layout that had grammatical or spelling errors. Usually it is an easy fix if you save the original 'layered' file.

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Dani B.

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Now, see, I usually catch my errors about the time I post them. If I catch it before uploading, I'll often put "I'll change the journaling on my copy. I know about the error." Otherwise, I just kick myself and move on. I type pretty fast and my layouts are journaling heavy, so I often find errors later. Personally, I don't really need or want a PM to let me know I messed up... I already figured that out and feel stupid. But I'm sure others would be OK with it.

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as long as it is friendly. I felt so dumb the other day because I gave my sister this LO of her son's first Easter I was so proud of. I had read through the journaling and didn't even notice that I put "birthday" instead of "easter." I even had my DH (an english major) look at the LO and he didn't catch it, although I think he generally tends to halfheartedly look in the direction of the screen and say "that's nice" without really looking. I had to print the LO again so getting hints (before I pay for a 12 x 12 print) would be great!

Yep, I'd really appreciate a PM, and would not take offense at my own error. For gosh sakes, we're all human. Thank you for asking this, I've thought the same thing on a few occasions, when I'm viewing someone's layout in the gallery and notice an error.

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