{"id":258,"date":"2008-01-15T09:06:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T23:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/01\/a-copyrighting-expert\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T06:32:19","slug":"a-copyrighting-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/01\/a-copyrighting-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"A copyrighting expert?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in November, I wrote a post about the difference between copyright and copywrite<\/a>. If you think about the actual words, it isn’t hard to tell them apart either (copyright<\/strong> is about rights<\/strong> for instance.)<\/p>\n

Yet I have just come across a website with the following sentence:<\/p>\n

we have combined many years of copyrighting skills to create magical letters for every occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n

As much as the misuse of copyrighting annoys me, it being misused in a sentence where the writer claims to be an expert writer\u00a0 is shocking. Of course, I am also curious as how to someone combines years to create anything.<\/p>\n

Before I get on my soap box about people posing as experts and (in my opinion) trying to fool people*, let me give you a much better version of the above sentence:<\/p>\n

Together, we have many years of copywriting\u00a0experience\u00a0which we use to create magical letters for every occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n

* I don’t know anything else about the writing skills of the site using the above sentence so I am not commenting on their level of expertise or claiming they are unethical. It is just a general comment that I hate people presenting themselves as more than they are and errors such as this are sometimes an indicator of such behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in November, I wrote a post about the difference between copyright and copywrite. If you think about the actual words, it isn’t hard to tell them apart either (copyright is about rights for instance.) Yet I have just come across a website with the following sentence: we have combined many years of copyrighting skills […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[486,541,542,124],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-writing-examples","tag-appropriate","tag-copyright","tag-copywright","tag-use"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t