{"id":27228,"date":"2022-09-22T11:56:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T15:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=27228"},"modified":"2022-09-25T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T16:09:57","slug":"iso-publishes-guidance-for-standards-writters-sic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/iso-publishes-guidance-for-standards-writters-sic\/","title":{"rendered":"ISO Publishes Guidance for Standards “Writters” (Sic)"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISO’s Committee on Conformity assessment (CASCO) has published a document on standards development that contains, its own text, various grammatical errors.<\/p>\n

Sure, no one likes a grammar Nazi, but I think in this case we can make an exception because it’s funny, and because it’s ISO.<\/p>\n

The ISO CASCO document “Conformity Assessment for Standards Writers – Do’s and Don’ts<\/em><\/a> ” starts off with a grammatical mistake right in its title. The apostraphe in the word “Do’s” doesn’t belong there. The proper spelling is “Dos and Don’ts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the thing that really got my attentoin was the PDF filename for the document, where they couldn’t even spell the word “writers<\/em>” correctly. Here’s how it appears on ISO’s official page<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Writters<\/em>.” I presume that is some cross between an actual writer and a critter. Maybe like half-man, half-possum?<\/p>\n

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ISO needs a Zoolander skool for writters who can’t writt gud.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[198,43,8137],"class_list":["post-27228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor-2","tag-casco","tag-iso","tag-zoolander","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27231,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27228\/revisions\/27231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}