[Ads-l] Grammatical error in the New Yorker

[Dave Wilton]

I'm sure that you can pick up any random issue of the magazine and find an error. 

That's not to slight the New Yorker or the quality of the editorial staff, just recognition that the editors are human.



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But the New Yorker prides itself for -- and is well known for -- its error-free prose! That's why this was such a noteworthy oversight!

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Dave Wilton <dave at wilton.net> wrote:

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> When I saw it there was a line break between the "to" and the = 
> "published," which made it even harder for me to spot. I don't know 
> how = it appeared in the original publication.
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> The occasional proofing error should never be criticized. Everyone 
> makes = them, and they are hard as hell to spot and correct. 
> (Especially when = it's your own writing.)
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> There's also a mental autocorrect: I didn't spot =E2=80=9Cscheduled to 
> = published=E2=80=9D probably because I automatically read it as 
> =E2=80=9Cscheduled to = publish=E2=80=9D.  Which is why proofing a 
> text is so hard to do right.
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> GAT
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> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Tim Stewart = 
> <timoteostewart1977 at gmail.com>
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> > Has anybody ever done a typology of ways errors appear in print?=20 
> > Recent additions to such a typology would include autocorrect 
> > fails,=20 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=20 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=20 
> > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > > Homey don't play that!
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> > > JL
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> > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 9:09 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> =
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> > > > JL (not our beloved JL): <<  I never thought I'd live to see=20 
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> > > > Trump"! The sky is indeed falling!!  ... argue with ... Homey 
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> > > > Not I.  >>
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> > > > WB:  Canada beckons. Straight no'th. May have to speak French. 
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