Ξεκαρδίστηκα με ένα κομμάτι για τα ορθογραφικά λάθη που έγραψε η λεξικογράφος (της OUP) Christine A. Lindberg. Αρχίζει ως εξής:
Years ago I learned a valuable twofold editorial lesson: respect the precision of a good keyboarder, and don’t get cute in the margins. The project was an encyclopedia of Japan, and it was back in the era of editing only on paper. One morning, I sat down with the freshly typed arts entries and my eye went to the article on the Noh play Atsumori. I immediately saw an opportunity for levity, to be shared only with the keyboarder. I knew that the pages would be sent to one of the nameless women who did all our typing, and I smiled at the thought of giving one of them a laugh.
As it turned out, the keyboarder was more professional than I was. She did her job perfectly, which was to key what the editors wrote on the page and not to identify frivolous content. The next time I saw the Atsumori article was after the printer sent us pages for a final proofreading. There on the page, just as I had handwritten it on the manuscript, was the article’s new, incredibly long, multi-line, boldface title: When the Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie, Atsumori. To this day, I am grateful to have been the one to amend that page before it became an international incident. The American publisher I worked for had brokered a major deal with a leading Japanese publisher to create the encyclopedia, and I’m quite sure neither would have been terribly amused.
Ο Ντιν Μάρτιν τραγουδάει το That's Amore στην ταινία The Caddy
Η ιστορία συνεχίζεται με άλλα απολαυστικά ορθογραφικά λάθη. Τι μπορείς να πάθεις από «a dash of salt» και πώς η αναζήτηση και αντικατάσταση μπορεί να φέρει τον Νιέφσκι αντιμέτωπο με τις... γογγυλοκράμβες.
Εδώ: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/01/the-wonderful-world-of-typos/
Years ago I learned a valuable twofold editorial lesson: respect the precision of a good keyboarder, and don’t get cute in the margins. The project was an encyclopedia of Japan, and it was back in the era of editing only on paper. One morning, I sat down with the freshly typed arts entries and my eye went to the article on the Noh play Atsumori. I immediately saw an opportunity for levity, to be shared only with the keyboarder. I knew that the pages would be sent to one of the nameless women who did all our typing, and I smiled at the thought of giving one of them a laugh.
As it turned out, the keyboarder was more professional than I was. She did her job perfectly, which was to key what the editors wrote on the page and not to identify frivolous content. The next time I saw the Atsumori article was after the printer sent us pages for a final proofreading. There on the page, just as I had handwritten it on the manuscript, was the article’s new, incredibly long, multi-line, boldface title: When the Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie, Atsumori. To this day, I am grateful to have been the one to amend that page before it became an international incident. The American publisher I worked for had brokered a major deal with a leading Japanese publisher to create the encyclopedia, and I’m quite sure neither would have been terribly amused.
Ο Ντιν Μάρτιν τραγουδάει το That's Amore στην ταινία The Caddy
Η ιστορία συνεχίζεται με άλλα απολαυστικά ορθογραφικά λάθη. Τι μπορείς να πάθεις από «a dash of salt» και πώς η αναζήτηση και αντικατάσταση μπορεί να φέρει τον Νιέφσκι αντιμέτωπο με τις... γογγυλοκράμβες.
Εδώ: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/01/the-wonderful-world-of-typos/
