Way to represent!!!

While browsing job listings on Monster.com, I came across this description of a company:

TWO Group, is a German-owned company with it's headquarters in Stuttgart German and Guangzhou China, and offices in UK, USA, Czech and Hong Kong.​

This short statement probably has the highest error-to-word count I've seen in quite a while. Beginning with an errant comma between the subject and verb, it quickly moves into an it's/its error. Pausing the error-train only briefly, the listing misnames the country of origin (Germany), while at the same time omitting the comma between city and country, and finally naming a language (Czech) instead of a country (the Czech Republic)!

If this is how the company chooses to represent itself, I don't think I'd want to work there.

Source: http://jobview.monster.com/IT-Consultant-Job-Chicago-IL-US-85251165.aspx

Now, some of you might wonder what brought me to this listing in the first place. Well, wonder no more! It is simply this: Having just completed my M.A. in German Literature to go along with my B.A. in German and my B.S. in Computer Science, I now need to find gainful employment. I'd like to go into translating or IT work, or perhaps do paid proofreading/editing for some of you big blogs out there. If anyone knows of a position that could use my skills, please let me know!

Typos: Now with Real-World Consequences!!

Here's a story from today's news about a plane failing to take off due to a typo!!

Apparently, the plane's first officer recorded the weight into the flight system as 262.9 tons, when in actual fact it was 362.9 ton.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5431941/typo-caused-airbus-plane-tail+strike-during-takeoff-in-australia

Twitter

Twitter is an interesting creature. By its micro-blogging and easy following nature, it gets used a lot for things like liveblogs, reporting on news the moment it happens. As such it is easy to make typos and other small mistakes in an effort to get the ideas across quickly.

This particular post from Extra Life was actually pretty funny in its errors:
The World of Warcraft Programming guild vol 2 is up! My art on the cover. http://tinyurl.com/yhxkbgr

Specifically, I like how he mis-typed the word "guide" and it became a term used in the game itself.

Source: http://twitter.com/extralife/status/6308567342