Well I'm sure they're telling themselves that spelling doesn't count because God's Word shines through. Isn't that the excuse Christians give for conflicting, ambiguous translations?
Idiocracy in Oklahoma. Spend less money on basketball arenas and more on literacy and maybe you'll get the unconstitutional dogmatic monuments right.
Better a misspelled word than something important. Like, say, giant underground vaults full of drinking water. Vaults that weren't designed to the correct standards.
@6: Oklahoma City is into that kind of bullshit. The State Capitol building was famous for being the only one without a dome. A decision was made some time in the 90's to build one and it is garish as all get-out. The interior is basically Oklahoma's creation myth and settlement, with Jesus peering out from behind rocks in every scene (I'm exaggerating, but he's definitely a key player). Also, all of the project's corporate donors (Walmart, Hobby Lobby, etc.) were inscribed in the base of the dome, so when legislators come to work, they're reminded who holds the purse-strings.
Well, since they don't actually follow the Ten Commandments, (How priceless is it that they created a graven image that commands not to create graven images?) why bother getting the spelling correct? Maybe God will send some divine magical spell checking to auto-correct it.
@20, I don't know for sure, but the basic shapes of "e" and "a" are similar in that blackletter/medieval typeface. They can probably fill in improperly engraved areas with some kind of rockdust/resin mixture, polish it smooth, and then re-engrave the letter and re-do whatever kind of pigment or oxidation they use to emphasize the contrast between the letters and the natural stone color.
They still find and repair spelling mistakes in the Vietnam Memorial, and didn't they have to re-engrave a whole section of the MLK memorial in DC?
Idiocracy in Oklahoma. Spend less money on basketball arenas and more on literacy and maybe you'll get the unconstitutional dogmatic monuments right.
Boy, them Okies sure is stoopid, eh?
yeah.
next thing you know they'll be l;tting homos erect chapels in city hall.....
they traded up.
amirite?!?
Is this thing on?
*I got nuthin*
Is it Fishday already?
I'm actually curious, how?
They still find and repair spelling mistakes in the Vietnam Memorial, and didn't they have to re-engrave a whole section of the MLK memorial in DC?