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Confusion plus Irritating spelling mistakes



When I watch a movie, I like to be neutral; i.e., I take ratings and reviews with a grain of salt. I watch a movie by myself and try to absorb what message the director wanted the viewer to get. I have enjoyed many movies which strangely enough had bad reviews and, of course, vice versa.

I watched this movie and, from the beginning, had a hard time trying to follow it. From the young couple ignoring warning news on TV to the guys playing basket ball to the older couple praying at the body of someone to the same couple being visited by their daughter, etc, etc. you could easily get lost. If that was not bad enough, you see messages on a supposedly U.S channel showing that "the President has left the CAPITOL" Was the President visiting the Capitol in Washington? OK, let's forget about that. You are taken to the Middle East where some officer is talking on TV and you get another message on the screen that people are leaving the CAPITOL. That spelling mistake was repeated again later on. I then realized that the Director intended to say CAPITAL in those instances. When the spelling of a basic word cannot be done right, this indicates ignorance and amateurish people put together this film. If no one from the production team could catch a simple thing like that, I decided to turn it off.

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Now I'm confused. You do know that the Capitol building of a state or country is spelled with an "ol" right? For example, I live in the capital of Florida, where the Govenor works at the Capitol building.

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Not many days left to say these things...

The president does not work in the CAPITOL. He does not have an office in the CAPITOL. He only goes to the CAPITOL on rare occasions, actually.

If TV news channels were reporting on the president leaving Washington, D.C., they would report that he had left the CAPITAL. The city in which the president lives and works is the CAPITAL. (He works in the White House, since you seem not to know that.)

By the way, it's spelled "Governor," not "Govenor."

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Next time maybe do a simple Google search to learn to differentiate between capital and capitol, before embarrassing yourself?

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