Today I found this little gem on Pinterest:
It's a great photo. But the caption read thusly:
The Quechua girl and the Lama - Peru, via Flickr.
No, no, no. There is no Tibetan priest in the picture. In fact, I'm not sure that rural Peru even has many Tibetan priests. That, my friend, is a llama standing next to the girl. Peru has lots of them. And they don't look anything like Tibetan priests, or lamas.
:) You catch a lot more of this than I do, but there is no shortage of bad writing on the internet. (Uh, please don't critique mine.)
ReplyDeleteIf you make a mistake as funny as this one, I'll be sure to pester you! (Ordinary stuff, I don't.)
DeleteThat works for me.
DeleteWhen people write short notes they really should check their spelling. When you've written 100,000 and you make a typo that can be excused.
ReplyDeleteEveryone makes typos, yes. But sometimes it's also clear that the mistake is not a typo, but rather ignorance on the part of the writer. Such, I believe, is what happened with the lama/llama incident above.
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