I've been seeing lots of typos lately.
It started when I noticed many that I'd overlooked on this blog.
Then I had a conversation with a prof about Christian history book that I had started to read but had given up on because I felt like I couldn't trust it due to the typos. I think it spelled Eusebius wrong, and it talked about Benedict of Norsia (instead of Nursia). The prof said that maybe these were due to legitimate variant spellings, but I don't know...
Then I found a typo in my beloved trusted Christian history textbook. Olson reports, "if modalism is true... not only was the Son of God crucified but soo too was the Father." Aah!
Even the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, a large and scholarly book, has mistakes in it. They say a particular part of the Testament of Job is quoted in Tertullian's De anima when really it's in De patientia. They send me to Genesis 20:31 instead of 30:21. And now I found an actual typo, not just an improper reference, in the text: "the poor and alien used too eat."
And my knitting pattern has errors in it too. It says I need to end a particular section with row 4, but really I need to stop after row 3.
I typo too. But the difference is that I don't have editors. I guess it's hard to catch everything in a long book, but really, isn't that what they're paid for?
Thursday, March 27, 2008
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you mean, "i typo, too"? :-) who says you don't have editors?
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