Nothing irks me more than when officially published materials have typos and errors. I once read a copy of Anne of Avonlea so littered with errors and typos that I had to stop reading. I couldn't even enjoy the book. One of my textbooks this semester is equally bad. Here are a few:
"The turn out to be 'matches'." The should be They
"Regarding the mechanical process of sticking the pieces together as a principle." Doesn't this leave you asking, what? what? what?
"Abut 1860, Cook and Bonnelli, who had developed a device called a photobioscope, predicted a 'complete revolution of photographic art'." About....
"And he seemd anxious to avoid any personal interference with the given data." Why is it okay to delete letters? Abut, seemd?
Thursday, April 15, 2010
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