>SNIP>>Now, I don't usually bother correcting anyone here either, it's free after all, but that's one of the reasons I don't buy the UT magazine. They should take the time to get it right, especially since it's for sale!
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>>You should let the crew know about this. Perhaps they don't really know about that and they could decide to hire someone to work on that.
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>The sad fact is that virtually everything is getting poorer and poorer as regards quality. If it isn't the product itself it's the sales "service" or the support "service" or the warrantee service or...
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>This is an INTERNATIONAL place and I'd rather applaud those who try to communicate when English is not their mother tongue than crap on them. This includes the UT Magazine. I wouldn't even try in a Spanish forum or a Portuguese forum or ...
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Just to clarify (?), I should not have jumped on the spelling error / typo. That stuff is everywhere so I normally keep my yap shut. My objection was only to the blatant plug of a commercial event the poster seems to be involved with. I should not have added the gratuitous swipe at grammar, and for that I apologize.

FWIW I regularly interact with people for whom English is not a first language, and agree with Denis that dotting the i's and crossing the t's doesn't matter as long as the meaning is understood. Through soccer alone I know boatloads (poor word choice?) of people who speak little or no English, yet somehow we manage to communicate. Among the most memorable was a kid named Jovan who I coached when he was 8. He and his family had just arrived, Bosnian refugees, and they arrived, apparently, without a word of English among them. I joked to my wife that the only English Jovan understood was "Jovan, do you understand me?" To which he would nod his head, even though he didn't. One of my all time top 10 soccer moments was when Jovan scored his first goal on American soil. It was about the third game of the season. Jovan was up front and the ball bounced his way at the 6 yard line. He banged it straight in, EXACTLY the way we had worked on it that week in practice -- kick it right away and kick it as hard as you can. He looked at his dad on the sideline, then at me, and I looked at both of them, and we all had smiles on our faces that went from here to Bosnia. It couldn't be put into words all of us would have understand, but it didn't need to be.

Old joke ---

Q: What is the language of science?
A: Broken English.

Mike