[Ads-l] Grammatical error in the New Yorker

[Jocelyn Limpert]

Yes, I later saw it was Menand, not Menard!

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:52 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> > On Dec 9, 2016, at 5:56 PM, Jocelyn Limpert =
> <jocelyn.limpert at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > I'm the "alert reader" in the following. Never thought I'd live to see =
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> > -- of course, I never thought I'd live to see "President Trump"! The =
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> > indeed falling!!
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> > Another Sign of the Apocalypse: A Grammatical Error in the New Yorker
> > December 9, 2016
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> > An alert reader discovers a grammatical error in =E2=80=9CBanned Books =
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> > Blockbusters,=E2=80=9D
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> oXWGjSk&e=3D > by
> > Louis Menard, in the December 12 *New Yorker:*
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> And it might also pointed out that the piece was by Louis *Menand*. :-)
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> > Completion took three years, and, since Heller was incapable of =
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> > himself=E2=80=94he was a compulsive adder and fixer=E2=80=94Gottlieb =
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> > in shaping the text. Finally, just as the book was about to go to =
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> > was learned that Leon Uris was scheduled to published a new novel =
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> > =E2=80=9CMila 18.=E2=80=9D Uris was, in those days, a reliable =
> best-seller, and Heller was
> > an unknown. Many brain cells were burned through pondering alternative
> > titles, until, late one night, Gottlieb came up with
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> > excitedly called Heller. =E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s funnier than =
> =E2=80=9818=E2=80=99!=E2=80=9D he exclaimed. Somehow,
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