[Ads-l] Grammatical error in the New Yorker

[Joel Berson]

Yes.  It took me three readings to find.

Joel


      From: George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 10:59 AM
 Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Grammatical error in the New Yorker
   
There's also a mental autocorrect: I didn't spot “scheduled to published”
probably because I automatically read it as “scheduled to publish”.  Which
is why proofing a text is so hard to do right.

GAT

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Tim Stewart <timoteostewart1977 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Has anybody ever done a typology of ways errors appear in print? Recent
> additions to such a typology would include autocorrect fails, speech to
> text fails, and (my favorite) copy-and-paste fails. When I saw "published"
> for "publish" my first thought was the writer reshaping the paragraph via
> copy and paste and forgetting to update the form of "publish".
>
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> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 9:26 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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