Proofreader wanted

Perhaps the proofreader was a spellcheck program. "Immanent" is actually a word, as are "imminent" and "eminent" of course. See eminent/imminent/immanent.

Sadly, both errors pale in comparison to the erosion of literacy that is commonly seen these days in emails and internet posts. I suspect that over-reliance on spellcheckers is to blame in some cases, but only in a minority of them.

Regards,
-- Al

Don't get me started on the editing failures in the Hartford Courant, our local daily newspaper, which has more misspellings and grammatical errors that you can count on your fingers and toes in each edition. It appears that their money woes are so severe, they have dispensed with editors altogether.

Agreed. As in other measures, grammar in this society has reached an all-time low. No matter the resource level at my (very large and well-respected regional) company, basic acumen in the English language remains more or less nonexistent.

Personally, I find plagiarism (one symptom of the outright dishonesty in this industry as a whole) a far more egregious sin. Multiple episodes on this site, where the general forum had no issue with it, caused my participation and overall faith to plummet to almost nothing.

Whow how terrible.

I must agree. Grammatical and syntactical errors abound in all media and it never fails to confound me that news reporters, whose specific job it is to relate information clearly, cannot construct proper sentences.

However, plagiarism is more serious as it is the theft of ideas and/or product. References or statements with attribution, even a casual one, are too rare.

Spelling errors bother me less and can be amusing.

(Now, that's a grumpy way to start the day.)