Most Embarrassing Numismatic Coverage I Ever Remember Seeing
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How many mistakes can you find? (And let's just call "penny" one mistake, one time, and be done with it. It's one thing for everyday parlance, it's another in a supposedly professional article. But there are far worse horrors lurking here.)
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https://barrons.com/articles/first-u-s-penny-will-be-auctioned-for-around-100-million-times-its-monetary-value-1538508889?link=mktw
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I love puzzles like this and will have to read it later, but
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"The penny up for sale was printed in 1792, a year before the U.S. Mint started circulating coin currency."
BRUTUAL.
Future Miss America contestant with that vocabulary!
Someone in the comments pointed out one or two errors, and an editor commented back "picky picky." So expecting reports/articles to actually be factual and correct is now considered picky? Oh my.
@jwitten I would add, also being able to spell ... or to use, you know, an actual dictionary. I hear they have those in something called books.
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George
No IHC +FE cents?
HMM.........coins are printed according to the article.
So I guess that the Government coins stamps, then.
Pete
@BuffaloIronTail and strikes paper currency.
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George
Thanks...................added.................you are correct!
Pete
From dictionary.com
neumacist
noun
1. a racist coin collector.
Anyone who can write in English was laid off years ago.
Me fail English? That's umpossible!
That is embarrassing.
Glad I didn't waste my time reading the entire piece of trash.
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No Child Left Behind and Common Core are really paying off! It just shows that the educational system really had no clue as to what it was doing prior to those programs being implemented. WOW...
Wow. That's worse than an AOL Facebook "coin" article..
Maybe it was pneumacist, as in full of gas or hot air? But, I would never say that about JK.
And James McCartney seems to have turned into a McCarthy after a few paragraphs. This is my favorite "nuemasitical" article of all time.
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Have you seen the new videos of people being asked basic knowledge questions on YouTube? Its quite surprising.
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The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...................
Pete
That was just a rumor to get us in the war. It was the Brits..
Again? Those SOB's!
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
And Stack's Bowers morphs into Stack's Browers.
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George
I was shocked at all of the basic mistakes in this article. It was a great topic for people to read and was ruined.
I find those YouTube videos very funny. The one I love is the interview asking how people feel about Trumps kids killing a Triceratops(could have been a different dinosaur). People got very upset they were killing an endangered species. The thing I wonder about on the YouTube videos is how many people they have to interview to find the ignorant ones. Hopefully it's not like shooting fish in a barrel like it looks like.
I also loved the YouTube where the guys asks how people feel about Obamacare and they rant about how terrible it is. Then asks how they feel about the Affordable Care Act and they rant about how Americans deserve affordable health insurance.
Very discouraging. So sad to see articles so poorly written. Education today is a shadow of what it was just fifty years ago. I know first hand since my wife is a professor at the college here. They have remedial courses for all the basics (math, English, reading), and applicants test to see what they need prior to taking elective courses. Cheers, RickO
I am fortunate in that I had learned to read on my grandfather's knee before I started school. I had two parents growing up, neither of whom finished high school but both of whom were well-read and well-informed (if extremely opinionated, in the case of my dad). I was an excellent speller (my opinion: that's strictly a genetic trait; some of the brilliant people I know are terrible spellers) and had the same teacher in fourth and fifth grades, Mrs. Davis, who drilled into her students the parts of speech, their functions, and how to write a gramatically correct and correctly punctuated sentence.
With those basic skills I managed, after I quit trying to be a professional singer, to have a 35-year (and counting) career as a professional writer and editor, culminating in first being a senior communications manager for Eastman Chemical Company and later 12 years working as a full-time remote cataloger for Heritage Auctions.
Oh, and I got a scholarship to Yale, didn't drink to excess (that many times) and didn't pledge any fraternities. And certainly not DKE.
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George
the susan b anthony and all the hype it had back in 1979. we all know where that went
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People saying coins are "printed" is one of my greatest pet peeves
the author is a young intern - cut her some slack
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Oh, mediocrity gets a pass if you're young. Or if you're too lazy to even check your work. Sorry, I don't buy that at all.
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George
If you go to the link, numismatist is now spelled correctly.
The second Stacks Browers is still not spelled correctly (I worded it this way because I did not want to misspell misspell).
If we were all the same, the world would be an incredibly boring place.
Tommy
And Archangel is still capitalized the first time but not the second. Still, it's a little better.
The ability to write clearly is a reflection of a person's ability to think and organize his/her thoughts clearly. There is no excuse for any organization to publish something so poorly written. The chasm between those with phenomenal achievements in the arts and sciences and the barely-functional masses of ignorant residents in this country is growing ever wider. Precise language, reason, and persuasion are essential to keep our society functioning at anything higher than a barbaric level. How many people today have lost all trust in our institutions?
Not being able to communicate effectively and have an open discussion of the issues is paralyzing our society. We're approaching a point where only those who scream the loudest get attention. It occurred to me yesterday that the day may arrive when the educated scholars of the world retreat from open society to maintain their hard-earned knowledge in cloistered organizations - much as the clergy tried to do during the dark ages.
The garbage printed in this article is just a symptom of a much larger epidemic.
Here's the deal - as numismatists we can tell how far off the mark this writer is. It makes you wonder about all the articles that you are not expert in - are they equally dodgy but we just don't know it?
This is what they pounded in our head in communication class.
According to the 7 Cs, communication needs to be:
Clear.
Concise.
Concrete.
Correct.
Coherent.
Complete.
Courteous.
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
Well said @BryceM
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I was planning to make this same comment myself.
just saying that I don't get upset at young women unless they lift my credit card to throw a drug-fueled rager at the beach house, and even then, it's hard to stay mad for long
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In her defense, she's a graduate student who describes herself as a multimedia journalist, and tells stories using - in her order - data, audio, photography and words. Maybe I should be more disappointed she didn't have a picture of the reverse than I was in the less than convincing story.
Darn, another 20 minutes of my life I can't get back ...
If we were all the same, the world would be an incredibly boring place.
Tommy
Cut her some slack because she's a young intern.... Cut her some slack because she is 12, young? Sure, ok. Cut her some slack because she is 21, young? NO. That is precisely the problem here, far too much slack has been given and this was the result. It may be the editor's job to cut her some slack, but it should be in the form of having her make the necessary changes to make the article presentable, accurate and publishable. How is she to learn, if she is not going to be held accountable for mistakes? "It's ok, here's your participation trophy, everyone here is a winner. At least you tried."
Lest I come across as unnecessarily elitist (and that's not me at all; I came from a lower-middle-class background and attended a good public high school in Dallas), let me clarify that I am passionate about education for young people, and good writing is more so than ever a needed skill in virtually any workplace. For many years I interviewed the potential applicants to Yale from my little part of the country, and most of them were extraordinary and quite well-qualified. Nonetheless, more than 90% of them got turned down, simply due in most cases to the extreme competitiveness of the place. (I also believe that, given the cost of attending many four-year private colleges, some people would do quite well with a two-year technical degree, for example medical technologists, talented coders, many other examples. Yale does make sure, though, that those who are accepted can afford to attend, and they mostly graduate with far less debt than they might from other institutions.)
But really? A GRAD STUDENT writes this way? Perhaps she should stick to photography.
I have also worked as a senior editor and technical writer for more than a couple of places, and it is not the job of such folks to cut interns slack. It is their job to encourage, train, and critique. It's not solely the fault of this "graduate student" that this amateurish attempt got published. I know eighth-graders who could have done a better job. And if the field is one that is new to you, you make sure to learn the correct jargon, and you run your copy by subject-matter experts before you finish.
So yeah I agree with you @Washingtoniana I would be more upset if she had set my couch on fire, but she didn't bring any credit to herself, and those she works for didn't do her any justice by letting this rubbish see the light of day.
It's a really, really competitive world out there, and young people in all walks of life need to be cut less slack, not more. The world will not reward you for being average.
The copy editor was at lunch? I don't know.....