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babylonsister

(171,066 posts) Wed May 30, 2012, 07:55 AM May 2012

Romney app misspells ‘Amercia’

Silly season.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/romney-app-misspells-amercia/2012/05/29/gJQAgN8K0U_blog.html

Romney app misspells ‘Amercia’
Posted by Aaron Blake at 10:44 PM ET, 05/29/2012

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign misspelled the word “America” on its new iPhone app, and it’s already paying a price for it.

In the app, the phrase “A Better America” is misspelled “A Better Amercia.” The misspelling was picked up and tweeted widely Tuesday night, soon spawned a hashtag-driven Twitter meme in which people imagined just what Amercia stood for and what kind of policies Romney had planned for Amercia.

The Romney campaign told The Fix that it had submitted a corrected version of the app to Apple, which has to approve the update.

Here’s a sampling of the reaction:

Will Mitt Romney apologize for Amercia?
— Ben Jacobs (@benhjacobs) May 30, 2012

Does @MittRomney believe in #Amercia-n exceptionalism?
— Patrick Stevenson (@stevensonpj) May 30, 2012

In the new Romney iPhone app, America is misspelled. instagr.am/p/LO5EGZh9LY/ h/t @thischoi #Amercia
— Jared Keller (@jaredbkeller) May 30, 2012

AMERCIA TEH BUETIFLU.
— Brett Sandusky (@bsandusky) May 30, 2012

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Romney app misspells ‘Amercia’ (Original Post) babylonsister May 2012 OP

Dog Bless Amercia! nt Ilsa May 2012 #1

Human error. It happens. Would you believe mucifer May 2012 #2

some thoughts on this ... zbdent May 2012 #3

Virginia Heffernan on Yahoo News says he should brand it siligut May 2012 #11

call Mitt Romney Enrique May 2012 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author NeverEnuff May 2012 #5

Many years ago EarlG and I did some web development work for a ballot initiative in Massachusetts. Skinner May 2012 #6

Stuff happens, but when it happens to mitt, why babylonsister May 2012 #8

Romney wants to run "Amercia", though, Skinner. pacalo May 2012 #9

I KNEW IT I KNEW IT! Teatards are edcantor May 2012 #7

Ooops! Quantess May 2012 #10

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)

1. Dog Bless Amercia! nt

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed May 30, 2012, 08:09 AM

May 2012

mucifer

(23,547 posts)

2. Human error. It happens. Would you believe

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed May 30, 2012, 08:09 AM

May 2012

The University of Wisconsin Madison misspelled "Wisconsin" on my diploma and others in the class. They had to send us new ones.

Of course in rmoney's case it could be "sabotage in the american workplace" a really fun book if you get the chance to read it.

zbdent

(35,392 posts)

3. some thoughts on this ...

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed May 30, 2012, 08:23 AM

May 2012

1. Did this app at any point say "I'm Mitt Romney and I approve this " app?

2. Hmm ... "Amercia" ... check to see if Rmoney had trademarked that word/brand name ... it may be a way for him to funnel even more money to his numbered accounts ...

siligut

(12,272 posts)

11. Virginia Heffernan on Yahoo News says he should brand it

Reply to zbdent (Reply #3)

Wed May 30, 2012, 02:15 PM

May 2012

“Amercia” is still getting auto-corrected on iPhones, and it is not yet a full-fledged Wikipedia entry. But Twitter’s running with it. Given its portability, its uniqueness on Google, and the number of short-form gags it continues to spawn, Amercia has the making of a nifty, hardy little meme. The Romney campaign shouldn’t panic about Amercia. They should, stealthily, pwn it. (Sorry — I won’t stop with that one.)

http://news.yahoo.com/i-want-to-live-in-amercia--how-mitt-romney%E2%80%99s-iphone-app-typo-explains-the-internet.html

So you may not be too far off.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)

4. call Mitt Romney

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed May 30, 2012, 08:25 AM

May 2012

tell him we like America the way it's spelled now!

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Skinner

(63,645 posts)

6. Many years ago EarlG and I did some web development work for a ballot initiative in Massachusetts.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed May 30, 2012, 08:58 AM

May 2012

And we misspelled Massachusetts on the website. The misspelling was discovered at the press conference unveiling the website.

It was very embarrassing.